mealy

• When the potatoes are roasted, slightly squeeze each separately in a cloth, to make them mealy, then split them open; season them with a bit of butter, or dripping, a little bit of chopped shalot, pepper, and salt, and this will afford you a nice relish for supper No. —  A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
• He made great improvements in the thermometer; and his name is sometimes used for that instrument Farinaceous_, mealy, tasting like meal To Fell_, to turn down, on the wrong side, the raw edges of a seam, after it has been stitched, run, or sewed, and then to hem or sew it to the cloth Festivals_, of the Jews, the three great annual. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• "I am not a mealy-mouthed miss; sure I may tell truth; and I wouldn't trust one o' ye," she added, with a very significant nod of the head at the gentlemen, "except the captain. —  Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
• The fruit takes its name from the colour of the peach, not from its flavour or nature, for it is dry and mealy, and we agreed, when tasting it, that it was like a mixture of chestnuts and cheese. —  The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
• Sech a mealy-faced, weak-lookin' atomy he was! —  The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories

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