Meadow, n. Mead, lea, grass land, sward land.
Meagre, a. [Written also Meager.] 1. Lean, thin, emaciated, spare, poor, lank, gaunt, skinny, fallen away.
2. Tame, feeble, jejune, vapid, bald, barren, dull, prosing, prosy.
Meal, n. 1. Repast, collation.
2. Flour, grain in powder.
Mealy, a. Farinaceous.
Mealy-mouthed, a. Over-cautious in speech, averse to telling the whole truth, inclined to mince matters, not plain-spoken.
Mean, a. 1. Middle, medium, average.
2. Intermediate, intervening, coming between.
3. Ignoble, plebeian, untitled, low, base-born, ordinary, common, vulgar, coarse, homespun.
4. Base, abject, grovelling, vile, contemptible, despicable, servile, beggarly, sneaking, dirty, scurvy, shabby, sorry, disingenuous, unfair, rascally, pitiful, base-minded, low-minded, dishonorable.
5. Sordid, penurious, miserly, stingy, niggardly, illiberal, ungenerous, selfish, narrow, mercenary, narrow-minded.
6. Small, little, paltry, insignificant, diminutive, petty, poor, wretched.
Mean, n. 1. Medium, mediocrity, middle state, middle course.
2. Instrument, method, mode, way, means.
Mean, v. a. 1. Intend, purpose, design, have in view.
2. Signify, indicate, imply, denote, purport, import, express.
Mean, v. n. Intend, purpose, design, have in view, propose to one's self.
Meander, n. Labyrinth, maze, winding course.
Meander, v. n. Wind, be tortuous, run in a serpentine course.
Meandering, a. Winding, serpentine, tortuous.
Meaning, n. 1. Intention, intent, purpose, design, aim, object.
2. Signification, sense, acceptation, explanation, interpretation.
3. Import, purport, significance.
Meanness, n. 1. Smallness, littleness, scantiness, slenderness, lowness, poverty, meagreness, poorness.
2. Abjectness, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, abasement, despicableness.
3. Illiberality, ungenerousness, sordidness, penuriousness.
Means, n. sing. & pl. 1. Instrument, method, mode, way.
2. Resource, appliance, expedient, shift, step, measure.
3. Revenue, income, resources, the wherewithal, ways and means.
Mean-spirited, a. Base, low, beggarly, vile, grovelling, pitiful, despicable, abject, low-minded, base-minded.
Meantime, ad. In the mean time, in the interim.
Meanwhile, ad. In the mean time, in the interim.
Measles, n. pl. Rubeola.
Measurable, a. 1. Mensurable.