meal

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The edible whole or coarsely ground grains of a cereal grass.
2. n. A granular substance produced by grinding.
3. n. The food served and eaten in one sitting.
4. n. A customary time or occasion of eating food.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The edible part of any kind of grain or pulse ground to a powder or flour; flour: as, oatmeal, bean-meal.
2. n. Specifically— In the United States, ground maize: more fully called Indian meal and corn-meal.
3. n. In Scotland and Ireland, oatmeal.
4. n. Any substance resembling the meal of grain or pulse; especially, any coarsely ground substance.
5. n. A sand-heap.
6. To grind into meal or the state of meal; pulverize: as, mealed powder.—2. To sprinkle with meal, or mix meal with.
7. To yield or produce meal; be productive in meal: applied to grain: as, the barley does not meal well this year.
8. n. 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.
9. n. The taking or ingestion of a supply of food; an eating; a refection or repast.
10. n. The milk which a cow yields at one milking. Also called mcltith.
11. To apportion food to; provide with meals or food; feed; fodder.
12. n. A speck or spot.
13. Apparently, to defile or taint.

Wiktionary

1. n. A speck or spot.
2. v. transitive To defile or taint.
3. n. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon meal, etc).
4. n. The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A part; a fragment; a portion.
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
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.
4. n. Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
5. v. To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
6. v. To pulverize.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the food served and eaten at one time
2. n. any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
3. n. coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse