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The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.

Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles.

sisting of ammonium nitrate, a derivative of nitrobenzene, chlorated napthalene, and wood meal.

A porridge or gruel of maize meal and water, milk, or the like. [Sp. Amer.]

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. Jamieson. Bannock fluke, the turbot. [Scot.]

A light repast between meals; a lunch. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.

; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents. Bit my bit, piecemeal. Pope.

A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.

Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.

One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. -- Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. -- Boardi…

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. [Sometimes spelled bole.]

A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. B. Jonson.

One who sifts flour or meal.

A sifting, as of flour or meal.

various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water. [Written also bosa, bozah, bouza.]

broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.