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Dumpling

A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.

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Dessert 76% connected

A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

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Sweet 76% connected

Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet orang…

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Apple noun · 78% connection

Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), b…

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Bergamot noun · 78% connection

A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of deli…

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Boiled adjective · 78% connection

Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

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Borer noun · 78% connection

One of the larvae of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple.

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Bouilli noun · 78% connection

Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has b…

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Broth noun · 78% connection

Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.

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Cake noun · 78% connection

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

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Casserole noun · 78% connection

A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with veget…

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Cockaleekie noun · 78% connection

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.

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Consomme noun · 78% connection

A clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.

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Crust noun · 78% connection

The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.

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Dough noun · 78% connection

Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

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