Esp. of foodstuffs: full of mites, infested with mites. Also figurative.

(a) of cheese: see quots. (cf. meal, n.2 3a); (b) of or involving two meals a day.

Of crops or manure: damaged by spontaneous overheating; (of cheese) having a scorched appearance or taste. Now rare.

Complete in natural development or growth. Of a food or drink: fully developed in respect of flavour; spec. (of wine in a cask, barrel, etc.) ready…

Blue-veined; spec. (of cheese) having veins of blue mould. Also more generally: (of food) mouldy.

Of cheese: Made from skimmed milk.

= blue-veined, adj. 2.

(of cheese) juicy.

Possessing, provided with, or containing meat. Occurring in parasynthetic compounds, as well-meated, open-meated, etc.; for these and other…

spec. Of a cheese: having the veins of blue mould characteristic of blue cheese. Cf. earlier blue vein adj. at blue, adj. n.compounds 1d.

Used in the names of various French cheeses with veins of blue mould; bleu cheese n. = blue cheese, n.

Made without a crust; with the crust removed.