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n.
A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
n.
The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.
v. t.
To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.
v.
To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
v. t.
To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
n.
A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.
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A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.
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Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.
v. t.
To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
n.
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
n.
The leaves and tops of vegetables, as of potatoes, turnips, etc.
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A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
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A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.
v. t.
A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes.
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A climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.
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of Potato
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The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.
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An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley.
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A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie.
v.
A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
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