These are the meanings of the letters ALEM when you unscramble them.
- Alme (n.)
Alt. of Almeh
- Lame (superl.)
Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
- Lame (superl.)
Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
- Lame (superl.)
To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.
- Lame (v. t.)
To make lame.
- Male (a.)
Evil; wicked; bad.
- Male (n.)
A plant bearing only staminate flowers.
- Male (n.)
An animal of the male sex.
- Male (n.)
Same as Mail, a bag.
- Male (v. t.)
Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.
- Male (v. t.)
Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.
- Male (v. t.)
Consisting of males; as, a male choir.
- Male (v. t.)
Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.
- Male (v. t.)
Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.
- Meal (n.)
A part; a fragment; a portion.
- Meal (n.)
Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
- Meal (n.)
Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
- Meal (n.)
The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.
- Meal (v. t.)
To pulverize; as, mealed powder.
- Meal (v. t.)
To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.