Pudding

1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.
3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage.
4. Any food or victuals.
5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening.
Pudding grass (Bot.),
the true pennyroyal (Mentha Pulegium), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat.
Pudding pie ,
a pudding with meat baked in it.
Pudding pipe (Bot.),
the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia.
Pudding sleeve ,
a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown.
Pudding stone . (Min.)
See Conglomerate, n., 2.
Pudding time
1. The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten.
2. The nick of time; critical time.