Meal
[miːl] or [mil]
Definition
(noun.) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse.
(noun.) the food served and eaten at one time.
(noun.) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times.
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Definition
(n.) A part; a fragment; a portion.
(n.) The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.
(n.) Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
(n.) Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
(v. t.) To pulverize; as, mealed powder.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Repast, COLLATION.[2]. Flour, grain in powder.
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Definition
n. grain ground to powder.—v.i. to yield or be plentiful in meal.—ns. Meal′-ark (Scot.) a large chest for holding meal; Meal′iness; Meal′-man or Meal′-mong′er one who deals in meal; Meal′-pock or -poke a beggar's meal-bag; Meal′worm the larva of an insect abounding in granaries and flour-stores.—adj. Meal′y resembling meal: covered with meal or with something like meal: whitish.—n. Meal′y-bug a small species of cochineal insect covered with a while powdery substance resembling meal or flour.—adj. Meal′y-mouthed smooth-tongued.—n. Meal′y-mouthedness.
n. the food taken at one time: the act or the time of taking food: a breakfast dinner or supper.—ns. Meal′er one who takes his meals at a boarding-house lodging elsewhere; Meal′-time the time for meals.—Square meal a full meal.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of meals, denotes that you will let trifling matters interfere with momentous affairs and business engagements. See Eating.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
According to the Liquor Law, a minute bunch of crumbs entirely surrounded by booze.
Editor: Ryan
Examples
- During the meal she was quiet and cool: but I could not undeceive her then. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He scarcely ever took a meal in the house; he lived in the counting-house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Fanny's last meal in her father's house was in character with her first: she was dismissed from it as hospitably as she had been welcomed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The meal was then bolted, and the tailings, consisting of bran, middlings and adherent flour, again sifted and re-ground. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Some of the office employees would also drop in once in a while, and as everybody present was always welcome to partake of the midnight meal, we all enjoyed these gatherings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Chamberlain, take these people over to my brother, the Grand Duke's, and give them a square meal. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Take a seat and bear me company, Jane: please God, it is the last meal but one you will eat at Thornfield Hall for a long time. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I was not surprised, therefore, when this morning he left his untouched meal behind him, and started with me for Norwood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This meal over, she resumed honest Rawdon's calculations of the night previous, and surveyed her position. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Phil announcing it, Mr. George knocks the ashes out of his pipe on the hob, stands his pipe itself in the chimney corner, and sits down to the meal. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The simple morning meal now smoked on the table, for Mrs. Shelby had excused Aunt Chloe's attendance at the great house that morning. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I never shall enjoy a meal in this distressful country. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The two gentlemen, refreshed by their bath and a hearty meal, were now arrayed in loose, flowing robes of white wool, similar to that of Justinian. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is unlucky to travel where your path is crossed by a monk, a hare, or a howling dog, until you have eaten your next meal. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They say he will eat any thing he can get between meals, but he prefers oakum. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They had their meals in the studio, they lived there safely. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He took his meals at the same emaciator that I did. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My uncle, Mr. Fairlie, never joins us at any of our meals: he is an invalid, and keeps bachelor state in his own apartments. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When Mr. and Miss Murdstone were at home, I took my meals with them; in their absence, I ate and drank by myself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Exercise should precede meals, not immediately follow them; the first promotes, the latter, unless moderate, obstructs digestion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Among the chief pleasures of the Catholic monarch between meals during this time of retirement were funeral services. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have impressed upon Amy during many years, that I must have my meals (for instance) punctually. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The community of women and children is renounced; the institution of common or public meals for women (Laws) is for the first time introduced (Ar. Plato. The Republic.
- The nature and the simplicity of gentlemen and ladies, with their servants and furniture, I think is best observed by meals within doors. Jane Austen. Emma.
- St. John had a book in his hand--it was his unsocial custom to read at meals--he closed it, and looked up. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Yer never get time enough over yer meals. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The unwholesome boy, who seemed to me to be going into a decline, took his meals out of the house. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast--for luncheon--for dinner--for tea--for supper--for between meals. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One of 'em takes his twelve pints of ale a day, and never leaves off smoking even at his meals. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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