Word Meanings - SPOON-MEAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food. "Diet most upon spoon-meats." Harvey.

Related words: (words related to SPOON-MEAT)

• LIQUIDATION
  The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
• SPOONFLOWER
  The yautia.
• LIQUIDIZE
  To render liquid.
• SPOONFUL
  1. The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful. 2. Hence, a small quantity. Arbuthnot.
• SPOONILY
  In a spoony manner.
• LIQUIDLY
  In a liquid manner; flowingly.
• LIQUIDATOR
  1. One who, or that which, liquidates. 2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. Mozley & W.
• SPOON
  See PEPYS
• SPOONWOOD
  The mountain laurel .
• SPOONWORM
  A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.
• SPOONDRIFT
  Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.
• LIQUIDAMBER
  See LIQUIDAMBAR
• LIQUIDNESS
  The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.
• LIQUIDAMBAR
  A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star- shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor. 2. The balsamic juice which is obtained from
• SPOON-BILLED
  Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.
• HARVEY PROCESS
  A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued
• LIQUID AIR
  A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied oxygen and nitrogen. It is prepared by subjecting air to great pressure and then cooling it by its own expansion to a temperature below the boiling point of
• SPOONY
  See SPOONEY
• LIQUID
  Being in such a state that the component parts move among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aëriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or
• TEASPOONFUL
  As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.
• TEASPOON
  A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.
• UNLIQUIDATED
  Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
• INMEATS
  The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• TABLESPOON
  A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
• OUTTAKEN
  or prep. Excepted; save. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• SEMILIQUIDITY
  The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.