Pud"dle (?), n. [OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool.] 1. A
small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
Spenser.
2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to
render it impervious to water.
Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [R.] Fuller.
Pud"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Puddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Puddling
(?).] 1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with
(water).
Some unhatched practice . . . Hath puddled his clear spirit.
Shak.
2. (a) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so
as to render impervious to water. (b) To make impervious to liquids by
means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
3. To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it
from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron. Ure.
Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of
the puddling process.
Pud"dle, v. i. To make a dirty stir. [Obs.] R. Junius.
Pud"dle-ball` (?), n. The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the
puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.
Pud"dle-bar" (?), n. An iron bar made at a single heat from a
puddle-ball hammering and rolling.
Pud"dler (?), n. One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the
process of puddling.
Pud"dling (?), n. 1. (Hydraul. Engin.) (a) The process of working clay,
loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or
impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything
impervious to liquids by means of puddled material. (b) Puddle. See
Puddle, n., 2.
2. (Metal.) The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought
iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in
a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by
which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities.
Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is
converted into wrought iron or into steel by puddling.
Pud"dly (?), a. Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul.
"Thick puddly water." Carew.
Pud"dock (?), n. [For paddock, or parrock, a park.] A small inclosure.
[Written also purrock.] [Prov. Eng.]
Pu"den*cy (?), n. [L. pudens, p. pr. of pudere to be ashamed.] Modesty;
shamefacedness. "A pudency so rosy." Shak.
||Pu*den"da (?), n. pl. [L., from pudendus that of which one ought to
||be ashamed, fr. pudere to be ashamed.] (Anat.) The external organs of
||generation.
Pu*den"dal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or
pudendum.
||Pu*den"dum (?), n. [NL. See Pudenda.] (Anat.) The external organs of
||generation, especially of the female; the vulva.
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Pudg"y (?), a. Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short,
pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand. Thackeray.
Pu"dic (?), a. [L. pudicus modest, fr. pudere to be ashamed: cf. F.
pudique.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the external organs of
generation.
Pu"dic*al (?), a. (Anat.) Pudic.
Pu*dic"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. pudicitÈ, L. pudicitia.] Modesty; chastity.
Howell.
Pu"du (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the
Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three
inches long.
Pue (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Puing.] To make
a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds. Halliwell.
Pueb"lo (?), n. [Sp., a village, L. populus people. See People.] A
communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and
New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories high, and is
usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any
Indian village in the same region.
Pueblo Indians (Ethnol.), any tribe or community of Indians living in
pueblos. The principal Pueblo tribes are the Moqui, the ZuÒi, the
Keran, and the Tewan.