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meatless

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Word definitions for meatless in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meatless \Meat"less\, a. Having no meat; without food. ``Leave these beggars meatless.'' --Sir T. More.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English meteleas "without food, without eating," see meat + -less . Meaning "without meat" is from mid-14c.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Without meat; vegetarian.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. lacking meat; "meatless days" [ant: meaty ]

Usage examples of meatless.

We correct our predecessors, an effete form of assassination, and then we wait either in this life or the next for the corrective dagger to be slipped twixt our own meatless ribs.

I lifted the bag of bones onto the back of the truck, oblivious to its shrivelled eyes, like black raisins above its yawning, meatless mouth, and it slithered down at me from the pile, a reluctant evacuee.

She threw it all together in a sort of meatless jambalaya and hoped for the best.

Now they had meatless Tuesdays and Grandmother fixed huge batches of macaroni and cheese.

The sheriff paid forty-five cents total, thirty for the Meatless Tuesday vegetable plate, ten for raisin pie, a nickel for coffee.

He sees the bones from the teenagers are almost meatless as his foot kicks something solid across the floor.

In deference to Maxwell and Juliana, the cuisine was vegetarian: tofu, lentils, capellini with meatless marinara sauce.

My hand sunk in a little farther this time, and I pulled out a nearly meatless bone.

On her previous trip to Tunisia, in the city of Sfax, Paula had heard about a meatless couscous dish flavored with fennel greens, onions, and spices.

I saw to it that my family observed all meatless, wheatless, sweetless days and other economies of scarce foods decreed by Mr.

He found that many major food producers were already marketing meatless sandwich patties, with John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Foods offering the largest selection.

The drought led to rationing, and what with the proliferation of meatless days and riceless days it was hard to feed an extra, hidden mouth.

As it was Lent, the meal was meatless: bread and oatmeal, pease porridge, and small beer.

Diners were stuffing their flushed faces with enormous green salads glistening with yogurt dressing, steaming bowls of meatless soup, egg-white omelets with stacks of dry cracked-wheat toast, veggie burgers as appetizing as peat moss, and gloppy masses of tofu-potato casserole.

Not even a ghost of light haunted the night beyond the window, and the slats of the venetian blind were as hidden from view as the meatless ribs under Death's voluminous black robe.