puddle 
But such extremes, I told tier, well might harm 
The woman's cause. " Not more than now," she said 
" * imadleit as it is with favouritism." 
Tennymii, Princes*, iii. 
2. To work puddle into; render water-tight by 
meann of puddle. See puddle*, it., 2. 3. To 
convert (pig-iron) into wrought-iron by stirring 
while subjected to intense heat, in order to ex- 
pel the oxygen and carbon. See puddling, ., -2. 
II. intrant. To make a stir, as in a pool. 
Indeed I were very simple, if with Crahronlus I should 
poodle in a wasp's nest, and think to purchase east- by it ! 
Juniiu, Mn Stigmatized (1639X Pref. (Latham.) 
puddle- (ptid'l), n. [Of. LG. *puddtl, purret, 
something short and thick (puddel-rund, purrel- 
rund, short, thick, and round), puddiy, thick, 
puddeln, pudeln, waddle, pudel, a thick-haired 
dog (see poodle).'] A pudgy, ill-shaped, awk- 
ward person. 
I remember when I was quite a boy hearing her called 
a limping old ptuldle. 
Mint Burney, Cecilia, vii. 5. (Damct.) 
A foot which a puddle of a maid scalded three weeks 
Ko- Carlyle, in Froude, Life in London, I. 18. 
puddle-ball (pud'l-bal), n. In iron-manuf., 
a lump of red-hot iron taken from the pud- 
dling-furnace in a pasty state to be hammered 
or rolled. 
puddle-bar (pud'1-bar), n. Bar-iron as it comes 
from the puddle-rolls (see that word). Puddle- 
bar train. Sec muck-roUt. 
puddle-duck (pud'1-duk), . The common do- 
mestic dnok: so called from its clmracteristic 
habit of puddling water. 
puddle-poet (pud'l-po'et), . A low, mean poet 
[Kare.J 
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Puddling-furnacc. 
. Fire-chamber ; t iron-chamber ; <-, hearth : 
puddly (pud'li), . [< puddle! + -yl.] Like the 
water of a puddle ; muddy; foul; dirty. 
For He (I hope) who, no less good then wise, 
First stirr'd vs vp to this great Enterprise . 
Will change the Pebbles of out puddly thought 
To Orient Pearls, most bright and bravely wrought 
Syloeiter, tr. of Du Itartas's Weeks, 11., The Vocation. 
Limy or thick puddly water killeth them. Carete. 
puddock 1 (pud'ok), . A variant of paddock . 
[Scotch.] 
puddock- (pud'ok), . [Var. of paddock?. Cf. 
e<[uiv. purrock, var. of parrork.] A small in- 
closure ; a paddock. [Prov. Eng.] 
puddock a (pud'ok), ii. A variant of puttock. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
puddy (puu'i), n. Same as pudgy . 
Their little puddy fingers. Albert Smith. 
pudencyt (pu'don-si), . [< L. puden(t~)g, bash- 
ful, modest, ppr. of pudere, be ashamed, feel 
de 
The pitddle-txiet did hope that the jingling of his rhyme 
would drown the sound of his false quantity 
Fuller, Oh. Hist., I. iii.']. (Damc.) 
puddler (pud'ter), n. One who or that which 
puddles ; specifically, one who is employed in the 
process of converting cast-iron into wrought- 
lr< ?i'i~ ? ota f7 Peddler, in metal-workiny, a mechanical 
pnrtdler in which the treatment of the molten metal is 
effected by the rotation of the furnace. See Dank* n- 
tan furnace, under furnace. 
puddle-rolls (pud'1-rolz), n.pl. IniroH-matuif., 
a pair of heavy iron rollers with grooved sur- 
faces, between which the lumps of iron taken 
from the puddling-furnace, after being sub- 
jected to a preliminary forging, are passed so 
as to be converted into rough bars. 
puddling (pud'ling), ii. [Verbal n. of pud- 
dle*, v.] 1. In hydrant, eiigin., the operation of 
working plastic clay behind piling in a coffer- 
dam, the lining of a canal, or in other situation, 
to prevent the penetration of water ; also, the 
clay or other material used in this operation. 
2. The operation of transforming pig-iron 
into wrought-iron in a reverberatory furnace. 
The object of puddling is to remove the carbon in the 
pig-iron ; and this is effected partly by the direct action of 
the oxygen of the air at the high temperature employed 
and partly by the action of the cinder formed, or the 
oxidized compounds of iron added during the process. 
After the iron "comes to nature" in the furnace, it is 
, , . , 
shame.] Modesty; shamefacedness. 
Women have their hashfulness and pudency given them 
for a guard of their weakness and frailties. 
H'. Montague, Devoutc Essays, i. 
I observe that tender readers have a great pudency in 
showing their books to a stranger. Emenon, Books. 
pudenda. . Plural of pudendum. 
pudenda! (pu-den'dal), a. [< pudendum + -/.] 
Of or pertaining to the pudendum; connected 
with or relating to the pudenda; pudic: as, 
the pudendal vessels, nerves, etc.- Common pu- 
dendal nerve. Same as vtidic nerve (which see, under 
intaic). Inferior pudenda! nerve, a branch of the small 
sciatic distributed to the skin of the upper and liack part 
of the thigh and of the outer surface of the scrotum or 
of the labium.- Pudendal hematocele, a collection of 
blood in the labium.-Pudendal hernia, n hernia into the 
lower part of the lablum, by the side of the vagina. Also 
called labial hernia.- Pudendal plexus. See plena. 
pudendohemorrhoidal (pn-den'do-hem-d-roi'- 
dal), a. [< L. pudendum, pudendum,-!- E'. lirm- 
orrhoid + -al.J Pertaining to the pudendum 
and the lower part of the rectum where hemor- 
rhoids occur pudendohemorrhoidalnerve. Same 
as puriic nrree (which see. under pudic). 
pudendoUS (pu-den'dus), a. [= Sp. Pg. pu- 
dfiido, < L. pudendu.t, participial adj. of pudere, 
feel shame.] Shameful ; disgraceful. [Rare.] 
puerperal 
artery, except Hint It does not receive the blood from the 
dorsal vein of the penis. 
pudical (pu'di-kal), . [< pudic + ./.] Same 
as pudie. 
pudicity (pu-dis'i-ti), n. [= F. pudteitt, < L. 
pudtcttia, modesty, chastity, < pudieux, bashful, 
modest: see pudic.~] Modesty; chastity. 
It sheweth much granitic* also pudicitie, hiding euery 
member of the body which had not bin pleasant to beholff 
Pvttenham, Arte of Bug. Poenle, p. 2S7. 
pudsy (pud'zi), . Same as pudijy. 
pudu (po'dfl), n. [S. Amer.] The veuada, C'er- 
vuspudu or I'udua liumilits, a Chilian deer. 
pudworm (pud'werm), n. The piddock, 1'holnx 
dactylim. [Local, Eng.] 
pue't, . An obsolete form of peirl. 
pue 2 t (pu), r. i. [Also^eir; an imitative word ; 
cf. pule.] To chirp or cry like a bird ; make a 
sound like this word. 
The birds likewise with chirps and piling. 
Sir P. Sidney. (Kiehardnun.) 
pueblo (poeb'lo), . [Sp., a town, village, peo- 
ple, < L. nopulus, people: see people.] 1. In 
Spanish America, a municipality; a town or 
village ; any inhabited place, in the part, of the 
I nited States acquired from Mexico it is used in the 
sense of the English word town. It has the indefinite 
ness of that term, and, like it, It sometimes applies to 
mere collection of individuals residing at a particular 
place, a settlement or village, as well as to a regularly or- 
ganlzed municipality. 
In Its special significance, a pueUn means a corporate 
town, With certain rights of jurisdiction and administra- 
lion. In Spain the term lugar was usually applied to 
towns of this nature, but the Spanish Americans have 
preferred and persistently used the term pueHo. 
Johiu llupkiiu L'niu. Studio, Bth ser., IV. 48. 
S^^'1, A Puebl Indian.- Pueblo Indians 
body of Indians In New Mexico nd Arizona, who dwell 
In communal villages (pueblos). They are partly civilized 
and self-governing. Among the best-known of them are 
till' ZUnlS. 
puer (pii'er), ii. An erroneous spelling of iiwre 1 -'. 
Stmmonds. 
puerile (pu'e-ril), n. [= F. pnfril = Pr. Sp. Pg. 
purril = It. puerile, < L. jiiierilix, pertaining 
to a boy or child, boyish, childish, < piicr, boy, 
child, < VIIH-, beget, whence also pupux, a bov, 
pupa, a girl, etc. : seey/i, pupil* , etc.] 1 Of 
or pertaining to a boy or child; boyivh ; child- 
ish; juvenile. 
Franclscus .lunins ... was born at Heidelberg, a fa- 
mous city and university In Germany, an. 1589, educated 
In puerile Learning at Leyden In Holland. 
Wood, Athena; Oxon., II. 602. 
Hence 2. Merely childish ; lacking intellec- 
tual force; trivial: as, a puerile criticism. 
e urnace, s 
made up into balls for convenient handling; these are 
shingled by hammering or squeezing, and passed be- 
tween rolls, by which the metal is made to assume any 
desired form. There are two methods of puddling the 
process as originally performed is called dry nuddlinn- 
that which is now most generally followed i's known as 
ml puddliivj, but is oftener called pigJioiling. In the 
older process only white or retlned iron could be used In 
the newer unrefined iron is employed, and this melts more 
perfectly and boils up more freely than is the case when 
refined iron is used, which remains in a more or less pasty 
condition during the process; hence the name piif-bm'lina 
Ine puddling process waa invented in England by Henry 
Cort, alwut 1784, and he was also the inventor of the method 
of finishing iron by passing it through grooved rolls pro- 
cesses of immense importance as determining the long- 
maintained supremacy of England in the iron-manufac- 
turing business. The invention of what is known as 
" Bessemer steel " has somewhat diminished, and is like- 
ly still further to diminish, the relative importance of the 
puddling process. Mechanical puddling, the substi- 
tution for hand-labor of some one of the various mechan- 
ical contrivances which have been invented to make the 
operation of puddling less fatiguing for the workmen 
\ arious methods of mechanical puddling have within the 
past few years come more or less extensively into use 
one is to arrange the tools so as to imitate manual rabbling 
(see rabble*) as nearly as possible ; in the other method 
some form of rotating or oscillating hearth is employed, 
the motion of which replaces the operation of rabbling. 
See Danks rotary furnace, under furnace; also (under the 
wune heading) Permit furnace, a form which has been em- 
ployed for puddling iron as well aa for making steel. 
puddling-furnace ( pud'ling -fer'nas), a. A 
kind of reverberatory furnace in which iron is 
puddled. See puddling, ~2 (), and cut in next 
column. 
puddling-machlne (pud'ling-imi-shen'), . See 
puddling, '2 (<i). 
puddling-rolls (pml'ling-rOlz), H. pi. Same a> 
forge-train. 
A feeling laughable in a priestess, pudr ndotis in a priest. 
Sydney Smith, Peter Plymley's Letters, ii. (Latham.) 
pudendum (pu-den'dum), ii.; pi. pudenda (-da). 
[L., gerund, of pudere, feel shame: seejiuden- 
<;/.] 1. In (inat.: (ft) The region of the private 
parts ; the pubes and perineum, together or in- 
discriminately, (ft) Specifically, the vulva. 
2. ;>/. The private parts; the genitals. 
pudge (puj), ii. [Cf. puddle*.] A ditch or gap. 
Htilliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
pudgy (puj'i), . [Also podgy, pudgy, pudxey, 
puddy; origin obscure. ] Fat and short ; thick ; 
fleshy. [Colloq.] 
The vestry-clerk, as every body knows, is a short, midtni 
little man. Dickeia, Sketches, I 
A blond and disorderly mass of tow-like hair, Apodiru 
and sanguine countenance. 
M. Arnold, Friendship's Garland, v. 
She was caught now under the mistletoe ... by little 
fellows with pudgy anus, who covered her all over with 
kisses - llarper't Mag., LXXVIII. 156. 
pudic (pu'dik), a. [= F. pudique = Sp. ptidico 
= Pg. It. pudico, < L. pudicus, shamefaced, bash- 
ful, modest, < pudere, feel shame.] In anat., 
pudendal.- Pudic artery, (a) External, one of two (a 
deep and a superficial) branches of the femoral artery sup- 
plying parts of the pudenda. (6) Internal, a large and sur- 
gically very important branch of the anterior trunk of the 
internal iliac artery, the principal source of the blood-sup- 
ply of the external genitals. It leaves the pelvis by the 
greater sciatic foramen, winds around the fschiac spine 
reenters the pelvis by the lesser sciatic foramen, courses 
along the inner side of the rami of the ischium and pubis, 
gives off inferior hemorrhoidal and superficial and trans- 
verse perinea] branches, and divides into three penial ar- 
teries of the bulli and cavernous lx>dy and dorsum of the 
penis. Pudic nerve, the smaller terminal division of the 
sacral plexus. It issues from the pelvis through the greater 
and reenters through the lesser sciatic foramen, and after- 
ward divides into the perinea! and dorsalis penis. It also 
gives off the inferior hemorrhoidal. Also called cummun 
intaeiulal. inidendnhemorrhiiidal nem. PudlC Vein, (a) 
Kst,;-nal, a tiibutary of the external Siiphenous, collect- 
inn bloi>d from the genitals and inner part of the thigh 
(b) Internal, a vein corresponding to the internal pudic 
It was therefore useless, almost puerile, to deny facts 
which were quite as much within the knowledge of the 
Netherlanders as of himself. 
Motley, Hist. Netherlands, II. 288. 
Puerile respiration, the respiratory murmur as heard 
In (healthy) children, louder and less vesicular than in 
healthy adults. 
Puerile retpiration in the lung of an adult is generally 
a sign of disease. .Sir T. Walton, Lectures on Physic, xlvii. 
= 8yn. 1. Juvenile, Boyith, etc. (see youthful). - 2 Weak 
foolish, silly. 
puerilely (pu'e-ril-li), adv. In a puerile man- 
ner; boyishly; triflingly. 
puerileness (pu'e-ril -nes), H. The state or 
character of being puerile ; puerility, 
puerility (pu-e-ril'i-ti), n. ; pi. puerilities (-tiz). 
1= F - pxerilite = Sp. puerilidad = Pg. puerili- 
rf uM jf" It- P nerilita < < Ij - puerilita(t-)a, boyhood, 
childhood, < pucrilis, pertaining to a boy or 
child: see puerile.] I. A puerile character or 
condition; boyishness; childishness. 
A reserve of puerility . . . not shaken off from school 
Sir T. Brotcne, Vulg. Err., L 7. 
2. The time of childhood ; specifically, in civil 
lair, the period of life from the age of seven 
years to that of fourteen. 3. That which is 
puerile; what is characteristic of or done in 
boyhood ; hence, a childish or silly act, thought, 
or expression. 
Of the learned puerilitiet of Cowley there is no doubt, 
since a volume of his poems was not only written, but 
printed, in his thirteenth year. Johnson, Cowley. 
One God would not suffice 
For senile puerility; thou framedst 
A tale to suit thy dotage. 
Shelley, (Jueen Mali. vi. 
Even amid the affectation and love of anagrams and 
puenlttut which sullied her later years, Elizabeth remain- 
ed a lover of letters and of all that was greatest and pur- 
est in letters. J. R. Green, Hist. Eng. People, vi. >. 
puerperal (pu-er'pe-ral), a. [ F. puerperal = 
Pg. pin-rpenil It, pnerp>-rale, < NL. ptirrprnili*. 
< Ufnamra, f., bringing forth, a parturient 
woman, < /,,,-, a child, + IHII;;;-. bring f ()r tl, 
DMT.] Of or pertaining to childbirth. -Puer- 
peral convulsions, cpileptiform attacks occuriini! in.- 
