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Porridge

A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

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Burgoo 76% connected

A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.

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Gruel 76% connected

A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.

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Hasty pudding 76% connected

A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush.

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Oatmeal 76% connected

Meal made of oats.

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Dish 76% connected

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

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Oatmeal 70% connected

Meal made of oats.

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Bantingism noun · 78% connection

A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Ba…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: food, boiling, some, leguminous, farinaceous.
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Bisk noun · 78% connection

Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together.

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Boil verb · 78% connection

To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: food, boiling, some, leguminous, farinaceous.
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Bonnyclabber noun · 78% connection

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.

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Bouillon noun · 78% connection

A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.

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Breadroot noun · 78% connection

The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farina…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: food, boiling, some, leguminous, farinaceous.
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Brewis noun · 78% connection

Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter.

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Brose noun · 78% connection

Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., accor…

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Bull brier unknown · 78% connection

A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous roo…

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Casein noun · 78% connection

A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and const…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: food, boiling, some, leguminous, farinaceous.
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Corn noun · 78% connection

The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.

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Cream noun · 78% connection

The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part…

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