Word Meanings - MEALTIME - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The usual time of eating a meal.
Related words: (words related to MEALTIME)
- EATAGE
Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath. - EATH
Easy or easily. "Eath to move with plaints." Fairfax. - EATABLE
Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n. - EAT
akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. äta, Dan. æde, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass - EATING
1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding. 2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises. - EATER
One who, or that which, eats. - USUAL
Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. We can make friends - COLLINEATION
The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson. - MEATY
Abounding in meat. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - REPEAT
To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn. - STEATOPYGOUS
Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton. - TREATMENT
1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope. - UNCREATED
1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke. - LEAT
An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley. - WEATHERING
The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges. - UNSHEATHE
To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war. - IDEAT; IDEATE
The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence. - PANCREATIN
One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic - WEATHERWISER
Something that foreshows the weather. Derham. - DEATHLIKE
1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak. - FEATHERNESS
The state or condition of being feathery. - CLYPEATE
Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate. - WEATHER STATION
A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering - DELINEATE
Delineated; portrayed. - OLEATE
A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.