mealmoth (melmoth)

A pyralid moth, Asopia farinalis, the larvæ of which feed upon meal-mouthed (mel'moured), a. Same as mealy - mouthed. That same devout meale - mouth'd precisian. 2. Covered with whitish powder like meal: specifically applied to the neuropterous insects of the family Coniopterygida. mean1 (men), v.; pret. and pp. meant, ppr. meaning. [ME. menen, meenen = mean, intend, signify, think, etc., = Icel. meina = Sw. men a = Dan. mene = Goth. * main jan (not recorded), intend, signify, mean; cf. OHG. meina, thought, minni, memory, Goth. mun an, think, intend, mean, akin to OBulg. menja, menite, mean, = Bohem. mneti, think; ult. His meal - pock hang about his neck, Into a leathern fang. Robin Hood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 188). meal-tidet (mēl'tīd), n. [ meeletide ; tide .] Meal-time; the hour for a meal. The morwen com and nyghen gan the tyme Of meele-tide. Chaucer , Troilus, ii. 1556. meal-time (mēl'tim), n. The usual time for eating a meal.