Word Meanings - FRUMENTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. Halliwell.

Related words: (words related to FRUMENTY)

• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• HULLED
  Deprived of the hulls. Hulled corn, kernels of maize prepared for food by removing the hulls.
• HULLER
  One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.
• HULLABALOO
  A confused noise; uproar; tumult. Thackeray.
• SUGARED
  Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.
• SUGARY
  1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
• HULLO
  See HOLLO
• BOILED
  Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
• SUGARLESS
  Without sugar; free from sugar.
• BOILARY
  See BOILERY
• HULLY
  Having or containing hulls.
• WHEATSTONE'S BRIDGE
  See BRIDGE
• WHEATBIRD
  A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
• BOIL
  1. To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water. 2. To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt. 3. To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific
• SUGARINESS
  The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.
• BOILING
  1. The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation. 2. Exposure to the action of a hot liquid.
• WHEATSEL BIRD
  The male of the chaffinch.
• SUGAR-HOUSE
  A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
• BOILERY
  A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
• SUGAR
  1. To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with. "When I sugar my liquor." G. Eliot. 2. To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof. With devotion's visage And pious
• 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.
• 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.
• COWWHEAT
  A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.
• NOTWHEAT
  Wheat not bearded. Carew.
• 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.
• LANCASHIRE BOILER
  . A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.