meal² /mēl/

1. Grain (now usu not wheat) or pulses ground to powder
2. In Scotland and Ireland, specif oatmeal
3. Maize flour (US)
4. Other material in powder form
5. A powdery surface-covering (chiefly botany)

1. To cover with meal
2. To add oatmeal to, esp to thicken (Scot)
3. To grind into meal

To yield or be plentiful in meal

mealˈiness noun

mealˈy or (Scot) mealˈie adjective

1. Like meal in texture, powdery, floury
2. Containing oatmeal (Scot)
3. Covered with, or as if with, meal
4. Having a powdery surface
5. Speckled, flecked
6. Whitish, pale

mealˈ-ark noun (Scot)

A large chest for holding oatmeal

mealie pudding noun (Scot)

A white pudding

mealˈ-man or mealˈ-monger noun (obsolete)

A dealer in meal

Meal Monday noun

The second Monday in February, a St Andrews (and formerly, Edinburgh) University holiday, orig to allow the students to go home and replenish their stock of meal

meal moth noun

A small moth (Pyralis farinalis) whose larvae are a serious pest of stored grain

mealˈ-poke noun (Scot)

A bag for oatmeal, formerly esp one carried by a beggar

mealˈ-tree noun

The wayfaring tree, from its mealy leaves and shoots

mealˈworm noun

The larva of a beetle (genus Tenebrio) frequently found in granaries and flour-stores

mealy bug noun

A hothouse pest, a coccus insect with a white powdery appearance

mealˈy-mouthed /-mowdhd/ adjective

1. Smooth-tongued
2. Over-squeamish, esp in choice of words

mealy-mouthˈedness noun

meal³ /mēl/ (Shakespeare)

(in pap meal'd) to stain or spot

• spindle shell
• spindle shells
• spindle side
• spindle sides
• spindle tree
• spindle trees
• spindle whorl
• spindle whorls
• spindlier
• spindliest
• spindling
• spindlings
• spindly
• spin doctor
• spin-doctor
• spin doctors
• spin-doctors
• spin-dried
• spin drier
• spin driers
• spin-dries
• spindrift
• spindrifts
• spin-dry
• spin dryer