pudding time

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

And solid pudding against empty praise.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

2.Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding. [1913 Webster]

3.An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

4.Any food or victuals. [1913 Webster]

Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.— Prior.[1913 Webster]

5.(Naut.) Same as Puddening. [1913 Webster]

Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal (Mentha Pulegium), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. --Dr. Prior.

Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. --Taylor (1630).

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. --Swift.

Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2.

Pudding time. (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten. [Obs.] --Johnson. (b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] Pudding fish