MEADOWSWEET; MEADOWWORT
Mead"ow*sweet`, Mead"ow*wort`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
MEADOWY
Mead"ow*y, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.
MEAGER; MEAGRE
Mea"ger, Mea"gre, a. Etym: [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to
D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. Emaciate, Maigre.]
1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak.
2. Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. "Meager soil." Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. Motley.
3. (Min.)
Defn: Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
Syn. — Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren.