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n. ground bones, used as a fertilizer or as a component in animal feed; -- it is high in phosphate content. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

. A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } adv. [ AS. drop-m&aemacr_;lum; dropa drop + m&aemacr_;l portion. Cf. Piecemeal. ] By drops or small portions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Distilling dropmeal, a little at once. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Meal a part, and cf. Piecemeal. ] A piece an inch long. [ 1913 Webster ]

By inchmeal, by small degrees; by inches. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Little by little; gradually. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See Limb, and Piecemeal. ] Piecemeal. [ Obs. ] “To tear her limbmeal.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mele, AS. m&aemacr_;l part, portion, portion of time; akin to E. meal a repast. Cf. Piecemeal. ] A part; a fragment; a portion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mel; akin to E. meal a part, and to D. maal time, meal, G. mal time, mahl meal, Icel. māl measure, time, meal, Goth. mēl time, and to E. measure. See Measure. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

What strange fish
Hath made his meal on thee? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mele, AS. melu, melo; akin to D. meel, G. mehl, OHG. melo, Icel. mjöl, SW. mjöl, Dan. meel, also to D. malen to grind, G. mahlen, OHG., OS., & Goth. malan, Icel. mala, W. malu, L. molere, Gr. my`lh mill, and E. mill. √108. Cf. Mill, Mold soil, Mole an animal, Immolate, Molar. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Meal beetle (Zool.), the adult of the meal worm. See Meal worm, below. --
Meal moth (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect (Asopia farinalis), the larvae of which feed upon meal, flour, etc. --
Meal worm (Zool.), the larva of a beetle (Tenebrio molitor) which infests granaries, bakehouses, etc., and is very injurious to flour and meal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To sprinkle with, or as with, meal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pulverize; as, mealed powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ From Mealy. ] (Bot.) Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being mealy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Mealy-mouthed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A program that delivers hot meals to persons, such as the elderly or disabled, who are confined to their homes and unable to cook for themselves; also, the meals thus delivered. Such programs are usually conducted by governmental or charitable organizations. [ PJC ]

n. The usual time of eating a meal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Mealier superl. Mealiest. ] 1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.), Any of several homopteran scale insects (as, Coccus adonidum, and related species of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae), that cover themselves with a white powderlike or cottony wax secretion. They are common plant-eating pests in hothouses and are also destructive of fruit trees. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Using soft words; not straightforward; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; speaking deviously; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. Opposite of frank or blunt. “Mealy-mouthed philanthropies.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Meal"y-mouth`ness n. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. Meal made of oats. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. pecemele; pece a piece + AS. m&unr_;lum, dat. pl. of m&unr_;l part. See Meal a portion. ] 1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. “On which it piecemeal brake.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. [ 1913 Webster ]

Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. “These piecemeal guilts.” Gov. of Tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fragment; a scrap. R. Vaughan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Divided into pieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Ramal. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Troop + -meal as in piecemeal. ] By troops; in crowds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So, troopmeal, Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

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