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Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.

The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal. A sorry breakfast for my lord protector. Shak.

n state; in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.

Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used. [Scot.]

beggar though she smelt brown bread and garlic." Shak. (b) Dark colored bread made of rye meal and Indian meal, or of wheat and rye or Indian; rye and Indian bread. [U.S.] -- Brown coal, wood coal. See Lignite. -- Brown hematite or Brown iron ore (Min.), the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See…

A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. [Written also burgout.]

A drinking between meals. [Obs.]

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

An explosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate, as that of sodium.

Ulceration of bone; a process in which bone disintegrates and is carried away piecemeal, as distinguished from necrosis, in which it dies in masses.

Meal-taking; dining or supping. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

uck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. -- Corn bread, bread made of Indian meal. -- Corn cake, a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus;…

A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers. [U.S.] Bartlett.

That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments. He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties. Macualay.

, and the other table furniture; esp., the table furniture for the use of one person at a meal; as, covers were laid for fifty guests. To break cover, to start from a covert or lair; -- said of game. -- Under cover, in an envelope, or within a letter; -- said of a written message. Letters . . . dispatched under cover…

Coarse flour or meal. [Obs.] Johnson.

divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.

A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind. [Scot.]

One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.