Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In photography, a defect in silver-printing, in which the surface of the print presents a peculiar mottled appearance, due generally to a too weak sensitizing-bath.
- noun The quality of being mealy; softness or smoothness, with friableness and dryness to the touch or taste.
- noun The quality of being mealy-mouthed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being mealy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
mealy .
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Examples
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Avoid overly sweet apples or those that tend towards softness or mealiness.
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Avoid overly sweet apples or those that tend towards softness or mealiness.
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All the polling in this race are now pretty mealiness now after the Palin endorsement and the last one was done in early April.
No Need to Compromise - A message from Chuck DeVore | RedState 2010
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Pretty soon, snap peas and freshly hulled peas themselves would add a delicate mealiness to such an in-between season dish.
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My concern is after the 2nd amendment is eroded to be mealiness, which one will the Congress go after next.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Brady II: The Objectives of the Gun Control Lobby: 2007
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The air spaces contribute to the typical mealiness of an overripe apple: as the cell walls soften and the cell interiors dry out, biting into the apple simply pushes the largely separated cells apart from each other rather than breaking the cells and releasing pent-up juices.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The air spaces contribute to the typical mealiness of an overripe apple: as the cell walls soften and the cell interiors dry out, biting into the apple simply pushes the largely separated cells apart from each other rather than breaking the cells and releasing pent-up juices.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The coffee was stale, but the buckwheat pancakes Anne had ordered with so little confidence turned out to be fresh and fulfilled the requirements of their kind to combine a hearty mealiness with the miraculous ability to absorb more maple syrup than any other substance known to science.
A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999
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The flowers are a pale primrose yellow, rendered more pale still by a mealiness which covers the whole stem, being most abundant near the top, but whether it is produced on the petals, or, owing to their bell-shape and pendent form they receive it from the scape and pedicels by the action of the wind, I cannot say.
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It is of a dull, glaucous, or greyish-green aspect, and invested with a greasy mealiness which when touched exhales a very odious and enduring smell like that of stale salt fish, this being particularly attractive to dogs, though swine refuse the plant.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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