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  1. 1. n. A part; a fragment; a portion. Source: opted
  2. 2. 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. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. 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. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. To sprinkle with, or as with, meal. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. t. To pulverize; as, mealed powder. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. the food served and eaten at one time Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times Source: wordnet
  9. 9. n. coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse Source: wordnet
  10. 10. A part; a fragment; a portion. [Obs.] 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 acas, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal. What strange fish Hath made his meal on thee Shak. 1. 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. 2. Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated. Meal beetle (Zoöl.), the adult of the meal worm. See Meal worm, below. -- Meal moth (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect (Asopia farinalis), the larvæ of which feed upon meal, flour, etc. -- Meal worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a beetle (Tenebrio molitor) which infests granaries, bakehouses, etc., and is very injurious to flour and meal. 1. To sprinkle with, or as with, meal. Shak. 2. To pulverize; as, mealed powder. Source: webster
  11. 11. A part; a fragment; a portion. [Obs.] Source: adambom
  12. 12. n:100 n. the food served and eaten at one time n. any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times n. coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse Source: ecdict

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