Pottage

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pottage \Pot"tage\ (?; 48), n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See
     {Pot}, and cf. {Porridge}, {Porringer}.]
     A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both
     together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.
     [Written also {potage}.] --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils.
                                                    --Gen. xxv.
                                                    34.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pottage
       n 1: a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat
       2: thick (often creamy) soup [syn: {potage}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Pottage
     Heb. nazid, "boiled", a dish of boiled food, as of lentils (Gen.
     25:29; 2 Kings 4:38).