Word Finder - meals

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Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).

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Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.

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Food served or eaten as a repast.

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A time or an occasion.

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The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.

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A speck or spot.

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A part; a fragment; a portion.

Though ammonium chloride has certain irritant properties which may disorder the stomach, yet if its mucous membrane be depressed and atonic the drug may improve its condition, and it has been used with success in gastric and intestinal catarrhs of a subacute type and is given in doses of io grains half an hour before meals in painful dyspepsia due to hyperacidity.

She fixed his meals, took care of the house and chores.

Dropping off home-cooked meals was a very nice gesture.

But there are nice restaurants within walking distance for your other meals.

How do you fix your meals?

In route, he pulled into a fast food drive-through and ordered two hamburger meals.

The principal meals are breakfast, about an hour after sunrise; dinner, or the mid-day meal, at noon; and supper, which is the chief meal of the day, a little after sunset.

While Dean hadn't read the tome, Cynthia had utilized it faithfully in her recent perpetration of meals.

About the time of setting out on his Indian expedition he was described as a most comely man, upwards of 6 ft., tall, well-proportioned, of robust make and constitution; inclined to be fat, but prevented by the fatigue he underwent; with fine, large black eyes and eyebrows; of sanguine complexion, made more manly by the influence of sun and weather; a loud, strong voice; a moderate wine-drinker; fond of simple diet, such as pilaos and plain dishes, but often neglectful of meals altogether, and satisfied, if occasion required, with parched peas and water, always to be procured.i During the reign of Nadir an attempt was made to establish a British Caspian trade with Persia.

On the death of Nerses the right of saying grace at the royal meals, which was the essence of the catholicate, was transferred by the king, in despite of the Greeks, to the priestly family of Albianus, and thenceforth no Armenian catholicus went to Caesarea for ordination.

The life St Basil established was strictly cenobitical, with common prayer seven times a day, common work, common meals.

The life was fully cenobitical, regulated in all details by minute rules, and with prayer and meals in common.

Food may with advantage be cooked for very young pigs; but, with the exception of potatoes, which should never be given raw, roots and meals are best given uncooked.

The women of an Egyptian household in which old customs are maintained never sit in the presence of the master, but attend him at his meals, and are treated in every respect as inferiors.

The Moravian Anabaptists, says Rost, went bare-footed, washed each other's feet (like the Fraticelli), had all goods in common, worked everyone at a handicraft, had a spiritual father who prayed with them every morning and taught them, dressed in black and had long graces before and after meals.

We have heard nothing for some time of any opposition; but now a fresh conflict arose with certain scribes who had come down from Jerusalem, and who complained that the dis ciples neglected the ceremonial washing of their hands before meals.

While the prisoners were still separated at night or meals, they were suffered to labour in association, but under a rule of silence ruthlessly and rigorously maintained.

At that time it was the custom to call up the whole able-bodied population of the manor, with the exception of the housewives for two, three or more days of mowing and reaping on the lord's fields; to these boon-works the peasantry was asked or invited by special summons, and their value was so far appreciated that the villagers were usually treated to meals in cases where they were again and again called off from their own fields to the demesne.

The Ramanuja Brahmans are most punctilious in the preparation of their food and in regard to the privacy of their meals, before taking which they have to bathe and put on woollen or silk garments.

Indeed its founder, Ramananda, who probably flourished in the latter part of the 14th century, according to the traditional account, was originally a SriVaishnava monk, and, having come under the suspicion of laxity in observing the strict rules of food during his peregrinations, and been ordered by his superior (Mahant) to take his meals apart from his brethren, left the monastery in a huff and set up a schismatic math of his own at Benares.

Soon after he was translated to Queen's College, where he became pauper puer serviens; that is, a poor serving child that waits on the fellows in the common hall at meals, and in their chambers, and does other servile work about the college."

Hence the rule not to eat meats strangled, except in sacramental meals when the god inherent in the animal was partaken of.

The same fear of imbibing the irrational soul of animals, and thereby reinforcing the lower appetites and instincts of the human being, inspired the vegetarianism of Apollonius of Tyana and of the Jewish Therapeutae, who in their sacred meals were careful to have a table free from blood-containing meats; and the fear of absorbing the animal's psychic qualities equally motived the Jewish and early Christian rule against eating things strangled.

A prevalent custom among the better classes is that of beginning meals with a selection of such viands as anchovies, smoked salmon or slices of meat, of which a number of small dishes are provided (smorgasbord).

This was in accordance with Roman custom, since in the earliest times all the members of a family sat at meals, and in later times at least the women and children.

The object of taking no liquid with meals is that it ensures mastication being more complete, because persons cannot wash the unmasticated food down by drinking, and it prevents the gastric juice from being greatly diluted, and so allows it to digest more rapidly.

Should these rules be insufficient, then (4) proteid and farinaceous food should be taken in separate meals - farinaceous food at breakfast, proteid alone at lunch; farinaceous in the afternoon, and proteid again in the evening.

When the secretion of gastric juice is deficient it may be excited by gastric tonics, such as ten grains of bicarbonate of soda and a drachm of compound tincture of gentian in water shortly before meals, and may be supplemented by the administration of pepsin and hydrochloric acid after meals.

The medicines above mentioned may be taken either in a moderate dose at bedtime or in the form of a dinner pill, or they may be taken in small doses three times a day just before or after meals.

Iron, therefore, must not be given to subjects in whom the gastric functions are disturbed, and it should always be given after meals.

A sort of table or bench stands outside, used by the men only, for meals and for the subsequent siesta.

Under this shade the inmates spend much of their time; here their meals, which are cooked on the ground beneath the house, are served.

Both of them are at that level of not worrying about missing any meals but they're not big spenders—maybe five to ten mil bracket, give or take—no real debts.

Well, don't despair, help is at hand and we're not talking about microwave meals.

If eating together every day is almost impossible, set a target of 3-4 meals per week.

If given after meals larger doses are required for temporary alleviation by neutralizing the food acids.

We offer optional picnic hampers and evening meals (including local aperitif and wine ).

Catering Staff - responsible for producing meals to satisfy healthy appetites sharpened by all the exercise.

Meals are served family style and dinner includes appetizer, entree, and dessert.

In summer meals can also be taken on the new decked patio area which overlooks the garden.

The cabin features a self-contained galley where our first class cabin attendant can provide you with hot or cold meals to suit your taste.

Pensioner claimants can deduct £ 20.00 for each one. £ [30] Income from non-family boarders (meals included ).

There is now a newly opened brasserie open for lunches and evening meals (except Mondays) overlooking the golf course with superb views.

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Meals should be paid for in the self-service cafeteria.

Don't miss out your steady meals or your special chocolate cake moments.

Your group prepares meals together over an open campfire.

Pegswood pit canteen was quite a small place and only supplied meals for a few of the workers.

Meals have included creme caramel, sponge puddings, goats liver and curry.

Potentially these could include cardiac MRI scans and small bowel scanning which might provide an alternative to barium meals.