Word Meanings - PILLAU - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter.

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• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• MUTTON
  mouton, LL. multo, by transposition of l fr. L. mutilus mutilated. 1. A sheep. Chapman. Not so much ground as will feed a mutton. Sir H. Sidney. Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds. Hallam. 2. The flesh of
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• BUTTERMAN
  A man who makes or sells butter.
• BUTTERFLY
  A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. Note: Asclepias butterfly. See under Asclepias. -- Butterfly fish , the ocellated blenny of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard. -- Butterfly shell
• BUTTERWORT
  A genus of low herbs having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• BUTTERMILK
  The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
• BOILED
  Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
• BUTTER
  1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. 2. Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• BUTTERBUMP
  The European bittern. Johnson.
• BOILARY
  See BOILERY
• ORIENTALIZE
  to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.
• BUTTER-FINGERED
  Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.
• BUTTERINE
  A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter. The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold
• BUTTERBIRD
  The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.
• BUTTERFISH
  A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.
• OVERBOIL
  To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
• IMBOIL
  See EMBOIL
• NATAL BOIL
  = Aleppo boil.
• TROILUS BUTTERFLY
  A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
  A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between