Vocabulary : Meal to Meandered

Meal : A part; a fragment; a portion. ;; The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal. ;; Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse. ;; Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated. ;; To sprinkle with, or as with, meal. ;; To pulverize; as, mealed powder.
Mealies : Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa.
Mealiness : The quality or state of being mealy.
Meal-mouthed : See Mealy-mouthed.
Mealtime : The usual time of eating a meal.
Mealy : Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. ;; Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect.
Mealy-mouthed : Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
Mean : To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ? ;; To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote. ;; To have a purpose or intention. ;; Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble. ;; Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive. ;; Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable. ;; Of poor quality; as, mean fare. ;; Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality. ;; Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes. ;; Intermediate in excellence of any kind. ;; Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day. ;; That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; m
Meander : A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. ;; A tortuous or intricate movement. ;; Fretwork. See Fret. ;; To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous. ;; To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
Meandered : of Meander
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