noun. The food served and eaten in one sitting.

noun. A customary time or occasion of eating food.

noun. The edible whole or coarsely ground grains of a cereal grass.

noun. A granular substance produced by grinding.

To grind into meal or the state of meal; pulverize: as, mealed powder.—2. To sprinkle with meal, or mix meal with.

To yield or produce meal; be productive in meal: applied to grain: as, the barley does not meal well this year.

To apportion food to; provide with meals or food; feed; fodder.

noun. The edible part of any kind of grain or pulse ground to a powder or flour; flour: as, oatmeal, bean-meal.

noun. Specifically— In the United States, ground maize: more fully called Indian meal and corn-meal.

noun. In Scotland and Ireland, oatmeal.

noun. Any substance resembling the meal of grain or pulse; especially, any coarsely ground substance.

noun. A sand-heap.

noun. A speck or spot.

noun. The supply of food taken at one time for the relief of hunger; a provision of food (formerly of drink also) for one or more persons or animals for a single occasion, as at a customary time of eating; the substance of a repast; a breakfast, dinner, or supper: with reference to domestic animals, more commonly called a feed.

noun. The taking or ingestion of a supply of food; an eating; a refection or repast.

noun. The milk which a cow yields at one milking. Also called mcltith.

Apparently, to defile or taint.

noun. A part; a fragment; a portion.

transitive verb. To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

transitive verb. To pulverize.

noun. 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

noun. 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.

noun. Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

noun. the adult of the meal worm. See Meal worm, below.

noun. a lepidopterous insect (Asopia farinalis), the larvæ of which feed upon meal, flour, etc.

noun. the larva of a beetle (Tenebrio molitor) which infests granaries, bakehouses, etc., and is very injurious to flour and meal.

noun. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc).

noun. A speck or spot.

verb. To defile or taint.

noun. The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour.

noun. the food served and eaten at one time

noun. any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times

noun. coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse

"Three main types of maize meal are marketed in developing countries: whole meal; partly de-germed meal (i.e. meal from which part of the bran and germ has been removed) which is designated under various names (e.g. partly sifted meal, bolted meal, roller meal (Zambia)); and fully de-germed meal from which most of the bran and germ have been removed and which is also designated as “super-sifted meal”."

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