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- English Word Meadow Definition A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
- English Word Meadow Definition Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
- English Word Meadow Definition Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
- English Word Meadowsweet Definition Alt. of Meadowwort
- English Word Meadowwort Definition The name of several plants of the genus Spiraea, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
- English Word Meadowy Definition Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.
- English Word Meager Definition Alt. of Meagre
- English Word Meager Definition Alt. of Meagre
- English Word Meagerly Definition Alt. of Meagrely
- English Word Meagerness Definition Alt. of Meagreness
- English Word Meagre Definition Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
- English Word Meagre Definition Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery.
- English Word Meagre Definition Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
- English Word Meagre Definition To make lean.
- English Word Meagre Definition A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.
- English Word Meagrely Definition Poorly; thinly.
- English Word Meagreness Definition The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
- English Word Meak Definition A hook with a long handle.
- English Word Meaking Definition The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
- English Word Meal Definition A part; a fragment; a portion.