Webster's Dictionary 1828

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MEADOWY

MEAD'OWY, adjective Containing meadow.

866

MEAGER

ME'AGER, adjective [Latin macer; Gr. small; allied to Eng. meek.]1. Thin; lean; destitute of flesh or having little flesh; applied to animals.Meager were his looks,Sharp misery ...

867

MEAGERLY

ME'AGERLY, adverb Poorly; thinly.

868

MEAGERNESS

ME'AGERNESS, noun Leanness; want of flesh.1. Poorness; barrenness; want of fertility or richness.2. Scantiness; barrenness; as the meagerness of service.

869

MEAK

MEAK, noun A hook with a long handle.

870

MEAL

MEAL, noun1. A portion of food taken at one time; a repast. It is customary in the U. States to eat three meals in a day. The principal meal of our ancestors was dinner, at noon...

871

MEAL-MAN

MEA'L-MAN, noun A man that deals in meal.

872

MEAL-TIME

ME'AL-TIME, noun The usual time of eating meals.

873

MEALINESS

ME'ALINESS, noun The quality of being mealy; softness or smoothness to the touch.

874

MEALY

ME'ALY, adjective Having the qualities of meal; soft; smooth to the feel.1. Like meal; farinaceous; soft, dry and friable; as a mealy potato; a mealy apple.2. Overspread with so...

875

MEALY-MOUTHED

ME'ALY-MOUTHED, adjective Literally, having a soft mouth; hence, unwilling to tell the truth in plain language; inclined to speak of any thing in softer terms than the truth wil...

876

MEALY-MOUTHEDNESS

MEALY-MOUTH'EDNESS, noun Inclination to express the truth in soft words, or to disguise the plain fact; reluctance to tell the plain truth.

877

MEAN

MEAN, adjective [Latin communis, vulgus, minor and minuo.]1. Wanting dignity; low in rank or birth; as a man of mean parentage, mean birth or origin.2. Wanting dignity of mind; ...

878

MEANDER

MEAN'DER, noun [the name of a winding river in Phrygia.]1. A winding course; a winding or turning in a passage; as the meanders of the veins and arteries.While lingering rivers ...

879

MEANDERING

MEAN'DERING, participle present tense or adjective Winding in a course, passage or current.

880

MEANDRIAN

MEAN'DRIAN, adjective Winding; having many turns.

881

MEANING

ME'ANING, participle present tense Having in mind; intending; signifying.ME'ANING, noun That which exists in the mind, view or contemplation as a settled aim or purpose, though ...

882

MEANLY

ME'ANLY, adverb [See Mean.] Moderately; not in a great degree.In the reign of Domitian, poetry was meanly cultivated. [Not used.]1. Without dignity or rank; in a low condition; ...

883

MEANNESS

ME'ANNESS, noun Want of dignity or rank; low state; as meanness of birth or condition. Poverty is not always meanness; it may be connected with it, but men of dignified minds an...

884

MEANT

MEANT, preterit tense and participle passive of mean.

885

MEAR

MEAR. [See Mere.]

886

MEASLE

MEASLE, noun mee'zl. A leper. [Not in use.]

887

MEASLED

MEASLED, adjective mee'zled. [See Measles.]Infected or spotted with measles.

888

MEASLES

MEASLES, noun mee'zles; with a plural termination.1. A contagious disease of the human body, usually characterized by an eruption of small red points or spots, from which it has...

889

MEASLY

MEASLY, adjective mee'zly. Infected with measles or eruptions.

890

MEASURABLE

MEASURABLE, adjective mezh'urable. [See Measure.]1. That may be measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.2. Moderate; in small quantity or extent.

891

MEASURABLENESS

MEASURABLENESS, noun mezh'urableness.The quality of admitting mensuration.