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† ˈmealtide Obs. exc. Sc.
Sc. meltith |ˈmɛltɪθ|. Forms: α. 3 mel tid, 4 meel-tyd, 5 melltyde, 6 meale tyde, meltyd, 7 mealtide. β. 6 mailteth, melteithe, 6–9 melteth, 7 mealtite, 8 mealtith, meltet, 8–9 meltit, meltith, 9 meltaith.
[f. meal n.2 + tide n.: cf. G. mahlzeit, Du. maaltijd, late ON. máltíð (Da. maaltid).]
1. = meal-time. Also, a meal, food.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 13 Þe man þe suneð aleð gestninge..and haueð riht mel tid and nutteð timeliche metes. c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 1556 The morwen com and neyhen gan þe tyme Of meltid. 1485Cely Papers (Camden) 177 Item I pd to my noste Gyllam de la Towr for howr melltydes from Sonday tyll Fryday vis viiid. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1185/1 He wold not for breaking of his penance, take anye praye for hys meale tyde, that shuld passe the prise of syxe pence. 1563–7Buchanan Reform. St. Andros Wks. (1892) 7 Every man ane eg at the mailteth. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 162 b, We..ar content onelie with ane melltyd on the day. 1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair i. ii, A Suitor that puts in here at Meal-tide. 1655Culpepper, etc. Riverius xv. v. 419 A Bath, into which Blood⁓warm let the Patient enter..far from meal-tide. 1728Ramsay Daft Bargain 12 [He] seem'd right yap His mealtith quickly up to gawp. c1826Hogg in J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 212 Tam lo'ed his meltith and his clink.
2. The quantity of milk given by a cow at one milking. = meal n.2
1633Orkney Witch Trial in Abbotsford Club Misc. 153 Alse mony mealtitis off milk. 1839J. M. Wilson Tales Borders V. 96/1 She, accordingly brought her evening's meltith, and skimmed it into his dish. |