1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and
friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy
potato.
2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings
of an insect. Shak.
Mealy bug (Zoöl.), a scale insect (Coccus adonidum, and related
species), covered with a white powderlike substance. It is a common
pest in hothouses.
Meal"y-mouthed` (?), a. Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or
timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain
language. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." Tennyson.
She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain.
L'Estrange.
-- Meal"y-mouth`ness (#), n.
Mean (mn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Meant (mnt); p. pr. & vb. n. Meaning.]
[OE. menen, AS. mnan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. mnian
to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina,
Sw. mena, Dan. mene, and to E. mind. √104. See Mind, and cf.
Moan.] 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to
intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
What mean ye by this service ?
Ex. xii. 26.
Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good.
Gen. 1. 20.