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One. See Men, pron. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To skulk; to cower. See Mich.

An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man. [Obs.] Johnson.

A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel. Chaucer.

ith coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.

The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.

Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.

Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak.

Poorly; thinly.

The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

A large European sciænoid fish (Sciæna umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maigre.]

A hook with a long handle. [Obs.] Tusser.

The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked. Meaking iron (Naut.), the tool with which old oakum is picked out of a vessel's seams.

A part; a fragment; a portion. [Obs.]

See Mealy-mouthed.

Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa.

The quality or state of being mealy.

The usual time of eating a meal.

Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.

affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.