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rticular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.

Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. [U.S.]

The hour of dinner; the noonday meal. [Obs.] At my supper and sometimes at nones. P. Plowman.

A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon. [Written also noonshun.] Hudibras.

A cake made of oatmeal.

Made of oatmeal; as, oaten cakes.

A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface. Garden orache, a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; -- also called mountain spinach.

A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hôte; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room. Shak. All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary,…

A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural. Milton. Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave. Shak.

Groats; coarse flour or meal. [Obs.] Sir. H. Wotton.

One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc.

In pieces; piecemeal. [Obs.]

Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal. [Italy]

Consisting of meal or pollen.

A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal. A woman whose potluck was always to be relied on. G. Eliot. To take potluck, to take what food may chance to be provided.

mpressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder; in the treatment of coal tar, the pressed product at various stages of the process; or, in beet-sugar manufacture, the vegetable residue after the sugar juice has been expressed.

f a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc. And solid pudding against empty praise. Pope.

cies are numerous and mostly small, but some of them are very injurious, as the bee moth, meal moth, hop moth, and clover moth.