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单词 mealy
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mealyadj.

Brit. /ˈmiːli/, U.S. /ˈmili/
Forms: 1500s–1600s mealie, 1500s– mealy, 1600s–1800s meally; Sc. 1700s– mealy, 1900s– mealie, 1900s– meelie.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: meal n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < meal n.1 + -y suffix1.With sense 4 compare earlier mealy-mouthed adj.
1. Of the coloration of an animal (spec. a horse): spotty or speckled with whitish specks; variegated, mottled. Cf. maily adj.2
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [adjective] > spotted with white
lyardc1386
mealyc1465
c1465 Care of Horses (Yale Beinecke 163) f. 50v A Mouse donne is best next And he haue a mely mouthe and rowe coddys and þt he be of the feturys of the furst hors.
1566 T. Blundeville Colour of Horses i. f. 1, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe The bright bay, the darke baye, that hath neyther learinge looke, mealy nose, nor white flanke.
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece 26 If the horse participate more of the aire than of the other elements,..his colour is either bright bay, or darke bay, which hath neither skouling countenance, mealy nose, nor white flanke.
?a1656 J. Poole Eng. Parnassus (1657) 67 Butterflie, gaudie, painted, mealy, guilded.
1675 London Gaz. No. 980/4 Stolen,..a black brown Nag,..with a star in the Forehead, a light brown mealy mouth.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4438/4 A Black Mare of about five years old,..a small meally Slip under her Right Nostril.
1854 Poultry Chron. 1 261/1 A dark hackle, or a ‘mealy’ wing, may be safely disregarded if conjoined with short, well-feathered legs.
1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough 19 A mealy bay cob.
1902 in D. H. Biggers Buffalo Guns (1991) 35 There were two distinct breeds of buffalo; the ‘mealy noses’ and the ‘black noses’, the noses of the former being yellow, or a smutty brown.
1958 Lady Wentworth World's Best Horse xvi. 204 The chief difference between Exmoors and Dartmoors was said to be a greater tendency to cow hocks in the latter, and a propensity to ‘mealy’ (i.e. tan) noses in the former.
1984 D. F. Ison Fancy Pigeon Standards (ed. 2) 302 Selfs to include Barless, Chequer, Bronze, Mealy and other multi-coloured birds lacking white feathers.
2.
a. Resembling meal, or having the qualities or consistency of meal or flour; powdery.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [adjective] > powdery or dusty
pulverous?a1425
powderyc1425
mealy1541
dusty1552
mully1570
pulverulentous1640
pulvereous1656
pulverulent1656
pulveral1657
powderal1662
farinaceous1664
smutty1667
snuffy1789
floury1830
pulverulous1841
1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 88 b Some groundes or residence [in urine] is like to meale, wheate, or barley, and may be named mealy residence.
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 156 The regular spots in their [sc. butterflies'] wings seem but a mealie adhesion.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. i. 35 By which means its crystals lose their transparency, become, as it were, mealy, and fall into a fine flour.
1800 Wordsworth in Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 34 Autumn..With all its mealy clusters of ripe nuts.
1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 203 Small clustering pimples..after three days go away in a small mealy desquamation.
1840 J. Pereira Elem. Materia Med. II. 661 Many druggists prefer mealy sarsaparilla, that is, sarsaparilla whose cortex is brittle and powdery, and which, on being fractured transversely, throws out a white dust.
1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood vi. 203 Breakfast, and out to work in the mealy, frosty snow by daybreak.
1964 H. Hodges Artifacts i. 20 Equally a clay may be too aplastic to work, the material being crumbly, also known as short, mealy, lean, or open.
1992 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 51 272 Herring was boiled, pressed and dried into a mealy state, then packed into straw bales for shipment.
b. Containing meal or flour; farinaceous.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [adjective]
mealy1547
farinaceous1656
1547 J. Hooper Answer Detection Deuyls Sophistrye sig. X2 The prophet neuer ment..to bring a Iewishe ceremonie into the churche of the gentiles. And to inclose Christ in this Mealy sacrifice of the aulter.
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) sig. Ddvv/1 Mealy, or of meale, Farinaceus, a, um.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 102 Our mealie graine, Our skilfull Seed-man scatters not in vaine.
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 485 A Farinaceous or Mealy Tree, serving to make bread of it.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xvi. 761/1 The Meally Julep.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 267 Decoctions of mealy Vegetables..lubricate the Intestines.
1890 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mealy albumen, the albumen of seeds which contains many starch granules, as in wheat.
2005 M.-F. Samson et al. in S. P. Cauvain et al. Using Cereal Sci. & Technol. vi. 232 (caption) Fig. 5. Scanning electron micrograph of the failed surface of mealy grain.
c. Resembling meal in colour, appearance, or texture; pale. Of a complexion: of the pale colour of meal. Of a person: having such a complexion.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective]
blatec1000
whiteOE
greena1275
blakec1275
bleykea1300
wana1300
palec1330
bleach1340
pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374
colourlessc1380
deadlyc1385
deadc1386
bloodlessc1450
earthlyc1460
ruddylessc1460
wan visaged?a1513
wanny1555
as pale or white as a clout1557
bleak1566
mealy1566
pale-faced1570
ghastly1574
white-faced1577
bleakish1581
pallid1590
whiggish1590
tallow-faced1592
maid-pale1597
lily1600
whey-colour1602
lew1611
roseless1611
Hippocratical1615
cadaverousa1661
Hippocratic1681
smock-faced1684
white-looked1690
livid1728
as white (or pale) as a sheet1752
squalid1753
deathly1791
etiolated1791
light-skinned1802
suety1803
shilpit1813
blanched1828
tallowy1830
suet-faced1834
pasty1836
tallowish1838
whey-faced1847
pasty-faced1848
aghast1850
waxen1853
complexionless1863
light-skin1877
lily-cheeked1877
lardy1879
wan-faced1881
exsanguinous1889
wheatish1950
1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse ix. f. 91v Some were vgly and euill fauored,..And some had their faces all mealy.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole i. iii. 6 Lauander Cotton..is..of a whitish greene mealy colour.
1696 M. Pix Spanish Wives Prol. sig. A3 Sea-fights, 'tis thought, won't much agree with those Whom they call Wits, and less with Mealy Beaus.
1838 Dickens Oliver Twist I. xiv. 227 I only know two sorts of boys,—mealy boys, and beef-faced boys.
1860 All Year Round 28 July 367 The boys of these London schools are thin and long: white, mealy, and flaccid.
1901 R. Kipling Kim v. 114 It was only natural that the descending sun should..strike through the tree-trunks, across the grove, filling it with mealy gold light.
1942 P. Wylie Generation of Vipers xi. 197 The mealy look of men today is the result of momism.
1988 J. Brodsky To Urania 93 A sleep-crumpled cloud unfurls mealy mizzens.
d. spec. Of fruit or vegetables, esp. cooked potatoes: dry and powdery. Cf. waxy adj.1 3a.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [adjective] > qualities of fruit
mellow1440
mellowy?1440
chokely1578
gross1578
choky1597
racy1651
mealy1673
squashy1698
rusty-coat1782
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [adjective] > potato > qualities of
red-nosed1784
mealy1795
1673 N. Grew Idea Phytol. Hist. iii. 115 Many Apples after Frosts eat [i.e. taste] mealy.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Mealy; a Term used concerning certain Pears, which having generally surpassed their Ripeness, or growing in an ill Soil, have not that Quantity of Juice and fine Pulp, which they should have: Thus they say of the Lansac, Dean, &c. this Pear is mealy, this Pear has a mealy Taste.
1795 Hull Advertiser 5 Dec. 4/3 Mealy potatoe.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 173/2 Those [potatoes] of a large size [are]..selected..because they are the mealiest.
1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xi, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 213 I like my potatoes mealy.
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands vi. 66 ‘What rot, girls; why don't yer get er shift on?’ cried Feathers virtuousl... ‘'Taint ther mealy pertater, polin' on the firm like this.’
1981 M. Cunningham & J. Laber Fannie Farmer Cookbk. (1988) 409 Summer squash have..a..more watery interior, while winter squash are hard-shelled and mealier inside.
2010 S. H. Jansky in Y. H. Hui et al. Handbk. Fruit & Veg. Flavors 940 A mealy potato is dry and granular, while a waxy potato is moist and gummy.
3.
a. Covered with fine meal or flour. Also fig.: whitened (with snow, etc.). Obs.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > by other specific substances
clayeya1382
mealy1567
snuffy1765
iron-moulded1787
feathery1813
waxy1861
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxii. f. 160 Certesse I am of opinion that a man may vainely consume a yeare or two in pursuite and seruyce of thys mealy Countrey wenche.
1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London ii. sig. Aiii Enter Simplicitie lyke a Miller all mealy.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 137 The mealie Mountaines (late vnseene) Change their white garments into lustie greene.
1636 W. Sampson Vow Breaker v. sig. I3v I may perchance harpe upon a conceit to beate this parboil'd gentlemans love out of my mealy Millers coat.
1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus I. 233 That some sort of People should be so foolish, to expect to come, as meally out of the Mill, when they had staid there but a quarter of an Hour, as the Miller himself.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 174 Mealy bakers, Hair-kaimers.
1832 Tennyson Miller's Daughter i, in Poems (new ed.) 33 The wealthy miller's mealy face.
1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. vi Winter..will come down at last in his old-fashioned mealy coat.
1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 113 He emerged from the mills as white as the clown in a pantomime, nor were we less mealy.
b. Chiefly Bot. and Entomol. Covered or appearing to be covered with a fine dust or powder.
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the world > plants > appearance of plant > defined by texture > [adjective] > rough, granulated, or powdery
mealy1567
miliary1760
scurvy1763
pulverulent1828
grumous1830
pulveraceous1857
pannose1866
scabrid1866
scabriusculous1866
scaberulous1870
saccharine1889
panniform1894
the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > hoary or powdery
mealy1609
hoary1781
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 34v Britannick or English Herb, hath the very looke of the greatest Sorrell, but in Colour a little more black, somewhat Mossie or Mealie.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. ii. 547 The leaues be playne and smoth almost lyke the leaues of Orache, but not so soft, white, nor mealie.
1609 Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 73 Men like butter-flies, Shew not their mealy wings but to the Summer. View more context for this quotation
1709 R. Gould Satyr against Wooing in Wks. 40 As a Moth that round the Taper plays, Now here, now there it's Mealy Wings displays.
1805 R. Heber Jrnl. 14 Sept. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. iii. 81 Nothing was seen but rotten bog, and rocks covered with lichen, a white mealy moss, which has more the appearance of a leprosy than a pasture.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 316 Chenopodium album..more or less mealy.
1961 R. W. Butcher New Illustr. Brit. Flora I. 6 A surface..is..Mealy when the hairs are very short, intricate and white and come off the surface like meal.
1993 TLC for Plants Summer 33/3 The dusty miller primrose..has mealy green leaves (resembling, it is said, flour sprinkled on the apron of a miller).
c. Of the finish or appearance of an oil painting: grainy, uneven; (Photogr.) = measly adj. 4. Obs.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > patch of colour > [adjective]
patchy1583
bloached1725
mealy1804
splotchy1863
splodgy1882
sploshy1942
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > qualities and effects > [adjective] > mottled appearance
measly1849
mealy1876
1804 tr. P. F. Tingry Painter & Varnisher's Guide 7 The use of camphor for varnish is limited; too great a quantity would render it mealy.
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 216 To give a richness and depth to the dark colours, by preventing that mealy appearance which results from the light resting and glittering on their surfaces.
1876 W. de W. Abney Instr. Photogr. (ed. 3) 110 The result would be ‘measly’ or mealy prints—i.e. prints in which minute red spots alternate with darker ones in the shadows after fixing.
1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 86 My greatest trouble has been mealy prints.
4. = mealy-mouthed adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [adjective] > of persons, speech
ambiguous1560
meal-mouthed1570
mealy-mouthed1571
mealy1573
mealmouth1575
Janian1598
equivocant1609
bird-mouthed1610
equivocating1645
Janus-like1656
Janus-faceda1682
equivocatory1821
Samsonian1861
weasel1912
weasel-worded1923
stuttery1937
bet-hedging1971
1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes xxvii. 779 All..heare your sugred wordesnowe, speaking as though that butter would not melt in your mealy mouth.
1600 T. Dekker Shomakers Holiday sig. B3 This wench with the mealy mouth that wil neuer tire, is my wife I can tel you.
1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 173 Therefore, George, notwithstanding all thy meally modesty, it is [etc.].
1720 N. Amhurst Epist. Sir J. Blount 12 If you don't straitway find out what The meally Rascals would be at.
1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance (1882) I. xxvii. 241 A little squeaking mealy voice.
1854 Dickens Hard Times ii. viii. 218 I didn't mince the matter with him. I am never mealy with 'em.
1954 D. Thomas Let. 15 Feb. (1987) 867 Yes, the Radio Critics..are a mealy, genteel drawl and giggle of parasites.
1991 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 51 291 He..privately requested Makoto to delete from his transcript certain banal and mealy expressions common to the language of academic reviewing.
5. Of the flavour of tea: mellow (see quot. 1892). Obs. rare.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [adjective] > qualities of tea
milkless1816
slushy1839
miserable1842
overdrawn1847
raw1881
mealy1892
stewy1895
tannined1898
potty1901
stiff1904
stewed1908
metallic1909
1892 J. M. Walsh Tea (Philadelphia) 98 Clear and bright in liquor, and mellow or ‘mealy’ in flavor.

Special uses

S1. Parasynthetic, as (sense 1) mealy-buttocked, mealy-flanked, mealy-legged, mealy-muzzled, mealy-nosed, mealy-winged adjs.; (sense 2c) mealy-complexioned, mealy-faced adjs. See also mealy-mouthed adj.
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xv. 141 Some flye with two wings,..some with foure, as all farinaceous or mealy winged animals, as Butter-flies and Moths. View more context for this quotation
1691 London Gaz. No. 2692/4 Stolen.., a black brown Nag,..mealy Buttock'd, and mealy Nosed with a Star on his Snip.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3978/4 A brown Nag..mealy Flank't.
1840 R. H. Barham Legend Hamilton Tighe in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 157 They bring her a little, pale, mealy-faced boy.
1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall II. xxviii. 220 Riding a mealy-legged, mealy-muzzled..cart-horse.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvi. 79 A mealy-complexioned male.
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius viii A mealy-faced, over-cerebrated people are springing up.
1928 Daily Tel. 13 Mar. 15/2 This mealy-winged flutterer..is made the valued inventor of some classic nonsense.
2008 R. Iyer 660 Curries 356/1 This slightly mealy-textured, earthy-flavored legume [sc. horse gram] can stand up to strong flavors.
S2.
mealy pudding n. Brit. = white pudding n..
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage
franchemyle1381
herbelade?c1390
haggisc1400
black puddinga1450
blood puddingc1450
bloodinga1500
liveringa1500
haggis pudding1545
white pudding1578
swine's pudding1579
hog's pudding1583
Bolognian sausage1596
bloodling1598
andouille1605
andouillet1611
cervelat1613
mortadella1613
polony1654
blacking1674
hacking1674
whiting1674
Oxford sausagec1700
saucisson1772
German sausage1773
saveloy1784
blood sausage1799
white hawse1819
liver sausage1820
black pot1825
chipolata1830
Bologna sausage1833
butifarra1836
mettwurst1836
Cambridge sausage1840
boudin1845
chorizo1846
German1847
liverwurst1852
salami1852
station-Jack1853
leberwurst1855
wurst1855
blutwurst1856
bag of mystery1864
Vienna sausage1865
summer sausage1874
wienerwurst1875
mealy pudding1880
whitepot1880
wiener1880
erbswurst1885
pepperoni1888
mystery bag1889
red-hot1890
weenie1891
hot dog1892
frankfurter1894
sav?1894
Coney Island1895
coney1902
garlic sausage1905
boloney1907
kishke1907
drisheen1910
bratwurst1911
banger1919
cocktail sausage1927
boerewors1930
soy sausage1933
thuringer1933
frank1936
fish sausage1937
knackwurst1939
foot-long1941
starver1941
soya sausage1943
soysage1943
soya link1944
brat1949
Vienna1952
kielbasa1953
Coney dog1954
tube steak1963
Weisswurst1963
Cumberland sausage1966
merguez1966
tripe sausage1966
schinkenwurst1967
boerie1981
'nduja1996
1880 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 492 Mealy puddings, a roly-poly—these old Scotch dishes were worthy of the worthy people who were bred upon them.
1909 R. J. MacLennan Yon Toon 24 Wad ye tak' a mealie puddin' or a quarter o' goudie.
1914 F. B. Jack Cookery for Every Househ. 517/1 Mealy Puddings. 1 lb. oatmeal. ½ lb beef suet... When the puddings are required, toast them a few minutes in front of the fire.
1986 Brides & Setting up Home Nov.–Dec. 96 Everyone then enjoyed a sit-down meal of traditional fare..including the local mealy pudding.
2011 K. Albala Food Cultures of World Encycl. IV. 318/2 Oatmeal is also an ingredient of black pudding..and white, or mealy, pudding (a sausage of oats, suet, spices, and onion).
mealy zeolite n. Min. (now hist.) (a) = natrolite n.; (b) = mesolite n.
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1807 E. D. Clarke Syllabus Lect. Mineral. 35 Cause of the Appearance called Mealy Zeolite.
1808 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. III. Gen. Index 378/2 Zeolite, mealy, radiated.
1811 T. Dwight Statist. Acct. New Haven I. i. 9 There appear to be several varieties, viz. mealy zeolite, lamellar or foliated, and radiated.
1993 A. M. Clark Hey's Mineral Index (ed. 3) 441/2 Mealy zeolite, syn. of natrolite and of mesolite.
S3. In the names of animals and plants.
mealy bug n. any of various small sap-sucking scale insects of the family Pseudococcidae, which are covered with a white waxy powder and can be serious pests, esp. in greenhouses; esp. one of the genus Pseudococcus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Pseudococcidae > member of (mealy-bug)
mealy insect1815
mealy bug1824
1824 D. Douglas Jrnl. 10–11 Aug. (1914) 82 A great portion of the clusters were daubed over with mud and some with lime, to prevent the attacks of mealy-bug and..the ravages of wasps.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 573 The Mealy-bug, C. adonidum, is somewhat of a rosy hue, with the body covered with a white mealy powder.
1927 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 502/1 The mealybug, so called from its white waxy or mealy coating, belongs to the big family of scale insects known as the Coccidae.
1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 5 May 27/5 The Comstock Mealybug, also known as the Pseudococcus Comstocki, is a serious threat to citrus, sugar beets, grapes, apples and other crops.
1991 Amer. Hort. July 2/2 Whiskey was recommended for mealybugs, salt for cabbage lice, and common black pepper as a cure for green cabbageworms.
2000 K. M. Baker Indigenous Land Managem. W. Afr. iv. 124 Some species of ant go further in their protection of the mealy bug. They build ‘tents’ over mealy bug colonies.
mealy centaury n. rare a greyish-leaved Caucasian knapweed, Centaurea dealbata, grown as an ornamental.
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1813 W. T. Aiton Hortus Kewensis (ed. 2) V. 149 Centaurea dealbata... Mealy Centaury. Nat. of Mount Caucasus. Introd. 1804, by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks.
1896 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) 229 Mealy centaury, Centaurea dealbata.
1918 L. B. Wilder Colour in my Garden Index 355 [Centaurea] dealbata—Mealy Centaury.
mealy duck n. Eng. regional (E. Anglian) (now rare) an immature long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis.
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1878 Zoologist Aug. 289/2 Long-tailed Duck. Mealy-bird.]
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds (Index) Mealy bird or -duck.
1890 T. Southwell Stevenson's Birds Norfolk III. 219 The immature long-tailed duck is known to the Blakeney gunners as the ‘little mealy duck’.
1906 W. A. Dutt Wild Life E. Anglia (App. I.) 357/1 Little Mealy Duck—Long-tailed Duck.
mealy insect n. now rare = mealy bug n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Pseudococcidae > member of (mealy-bug)
mealy insect1815
mealy bug1824
1815 Trans. Hort. Soc. 1 297 Coccus Adonidum, the Mealy Insect.
1840 Gardeners' Mag. Mar. 110 There are many methods for destroying the mealy insect, Aphis lanigera, on apple trees.
1905 Gardening (Chicago) 1 Aug. 340/2 Dr. W. Kenrlck speaks of..flowers of sulphur and lampblack for a white mealy insect and mildew on grapes.
mealy parasol n. Obs. rare a fungus with a granular-scaly cap, Cystoderma granulosum, closely related to the parasol mushrooms of the genus Macrolepiota.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > other edible fungi
Jew's ear1544
morel1653
Judas's ear1692
moriglio1698
chanterelle1777
sage-apple1832
swamp-apple1846
swamp-cheese1859
cèpe1865
mayapple1872
thunder-dirt1883
mealy parasol1887
1887 W. D. Hay Elem. Text-bk. Brit. Fungi 73 Agaricus granulosus... The Mealy Parasol.
mealy redpoll n. a redpoll of the subspecies Acanthis flammea flammea, which has relatively pale, greyish plumage and breeds in the far north of Eurasia and North America; formerly also called common redpoll.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Acanthis > acanthis flammea (lesser redpoll)
red-headed linnet1674
redpoll1728
stone-redpole1768
lesser redpoll1776
rose linnet1796
redpoll linnet?a1808
redpoll finch1814
mealy redpoll1837
1837 J. Gould Birds Europe III. 193 The practical bird-catchers..have ever been in the habit of regarding the Mealy Redpole as truly distinct.
1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 773 The geographical range of the Lesser Redpoll is apparently limited to Western Europe... On the other hand, the Mealy Redpoll..is much more widely distributed.
1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles I. 122 Two races [are] most commonly met with in Great Britain: our breeding bird (the lesser redpoll) and the mealy redpoll, which is a winter visitor.
1991 Bird Watching June 42/5 At least one Arctic redpoll remained in the Dell on the 5th, while the odd mealy redpolls could still be found at the month's end.
2010 C. Hutchinson Birds in Irel. 195/1 The Mealy Redpoll C. f. flammea, which breeds in northern Continental Europe, was recorded about 11 times prior to 1966..and on three occasions since then.
mealy starwort n. now rare the colic root Aletris farinosa, which has wrinkled white flowers presenting a mealy appearance.
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1828 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. I. 37 Aletris farinosa. English name—Mealy Starwort.
1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mealy Mealy Starwort, the Aletris farinosa.
1930 A. F. Sievers Amer. Medicinal Plants Commerc. Importance (U.S. Dept. of Agric. Misc. Publ. 77) 4 Aletris. Other common names.—Stargrass, blazing star, mealy starwort, [etc.].
mealy tree n. [after early modern German mälbaum (1552 in the source referred to in quot. 1640; German †Mehlbaum)] any of several viburnums characterized by the greyish pubescence of their twigs or the undersides of their leaves, esp. (more fully pliant mealy tree) the wayfaring tree, Viburnum lantana, of Eurasia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > viburnums or guelder rose and allies > [noun]
bendwithc1440
opier1548
opulus1548
ople1551
dwarf plane tree1578
water elder1578
whitten1578
guelder rose1597
rose elder1597
wayfaring man's tree1597
wayfaring tree1597
opiet1601
cotton tree1633
viorne1637
mealy tree1640
laurustinus1664
stinking tree1681
black haw1688
laurel-thyme1693
laurustine1693
viburnum1731
wayfaring shrub1731
May rose1753
pembina1760
snowball tree1760
mealtree1785
stink-tree1795
cherry-wood1821
snowball1828
sloe1846
withe-rod1846
lithy-tree1866
nannyberry1867
king's crown1879
stag bush1884
snowball bush1931
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xvi. xlii. 1449 I have therefore from Tragus his mealy tree, put to the pliantnesse of the twigges and branches, and called it the pliant mealy tree.
1671 S. Skinner Etymol. Linguæ Anglicanæ sig. Iiii3/1 The plant [sic] Mealy-tree, Viburnum, sic dictum, quia ejus folia, instar Farinæ, candida, mollia & tomentosa sunt.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 319 Mealy-tree, Pliant, Viburnum.
1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 32 Maple-leaved Mealy Tree (Viburnum acerifolium).
1940 E. Step Wayside & Woodland Trees 61 The local names for this shrub [sc. the wayfaring tree] include Mealy-tree, Whipcrop, Cotton-tree [etc.].
1960 R. A. Vines Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines Southwest 964 Viburnum dentatum..is also known under the vernacular names of Southern Arrowwood, Mealy-tree.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018).

mealyv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mealy adj.
Etymology: < mealy adj. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (mī·li) /ˈmiːlɪ/.
Dyeing. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To boil (fabric) in bran-water in order to remove dye. Cf. bran v., bran-boil n. at bran n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > dye [verb (transitive)] > remove dye
mealy1667
discharge1727
run1850
strip1896
1667 W. Petty in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 293 Bran-liquors are used to mealy dying Stuffs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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