Word Meanings - POTTAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.

Related words: (words related to POTTAGE)

• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• JACOBINE
  A Jacobin.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• JACOBINIZE
  To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism. France was not then jacobinized. Burke.
• BOILED
  Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
• BOILARY
  See BOILERY
• BREADROOT
  The root of a leguminous plant , found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food. Note: It is the Pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs.
• JACOBIN
  A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris. 2. One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• JACOBEAN; JACOBIAN
  Of or pertaining to a style of architecture and decoration in the time of James the First, of England. "A Jacobean table." C. L. Eastlake.
• BOILING
  Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. Boiling point, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena
• BOIL
  a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. , Lith. bumbuls. 1. To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam , or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a
• JACOBITISM
  The principles of the Jacobites. Mason.
• JACOBUS
  An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.
• JACOBAEAN LILY
  A bulbous plant from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower.
• BOILERY
  A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
• 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.
• SWINEBREAD
  The truffle.
• SHEWBREAD
  See SHOWBREAD
• IMBOIL
  See EMBOIL
• NATAL BOIL
  = Aleppo boil.
• 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.
• WAYBREAD
  The common dooryard plantain .
• PARBOIL
  through + bouillir to boil, L. bullire. The sense has been 1. To boil or cook thoroughly. B. Jonson. 2. To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.