Definition of meal

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Meal (n.) 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..

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Mealtime :: Mealtime (n.) The usual time of eating a meal.
Bever :: Bever (v. i.) To take a light repast between meals.
Course :: Course (n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments..
Sift :: Sift (v. t.) To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime..
Knaveship :: Knaveship (n.) A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller..
Soy :: Soy (n.) A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water..
Bolter :: Bolter (n.) An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve..
Bergmeal :: Bergmeal (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite..
Bolting :: Bolting (n.) A sifting, as of flour or meal..
Breakfast :: Breakfast (n.) A meal after fasting, or food in general..
Dropmeal :: Dropmeal (adv.) Alt. of Dropmel.
Flummery :: Flummery (n.) A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap..
Mealy :: Mealy (superl.) Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect..
Meal :: Meal (v. t.) To pulverize; as, mealed powder..
Piecemeal :: Piecemeal (adv.) Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
Padar :: Padar (n.) Groats; coarse flour or meal.
Grist :: Grist (n.) Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces..
Rameal :: Rameal (a.) Same as Ramal.
Mealy-mouthed :: Mealy-mouthed (a.) Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
Indian :: Indian (a.) Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like..
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