siege of Yorktown, the battle of Fair Oaks, the seven days' battle before Richmond, and the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, where he was wounded, and Chancellorsville, where his brigade was reduced in numbers to less than a regiment, and General Meagher resigned his commission. On the 23rd of December 1863 his resignation was cancelled, and he was assigned to the command of the military district of Etowah, with headquarters at Chattanooga. At the close of the war he was appointed by President Johnson secretary of Montana Territory, and there, in the absence of the territorial governor, he acted as governor from September 1866 until his death from accidental drowning in the Missouri River near Fort Benton, Montana, on the 1st of July 1867. He published _Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland_ (1852). W. F. Lyons, in _Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher_ (New York, 1870), gives a eulogistic account of his career. MEAL. (1) (A word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. _Mehl_, Du. meel; the ultimate source is the root seen in various Teutonic words meaning "to grind," and in Eng. "mill," Lat. _mola_, _molere_, Gr. [Greek: mylê]), a powder made from the edible part of any grain or pulse, with the exception of wheat, which is known as "flour." In America the word is specifically applied to the meal produced from Indian corn or maize, as in Scotland and Ireland to that produced from oats, while in South Africa the ears of the Indian corn itself are called "mealies." (2) Properly, eating and drinking at regular stated times of the day, as breakfast, dinner, &c., hence taking of food at any time and also the food provided. The word was in O.E. _mael_, which also had the meanings (now lost) of time, mark, measure, &c., which still appear in many forms of the word in Teutonic languages; thus Ger. _mal_, time, mark, cf. _Denkmal_, monument, _Mahl_, meal, repast, or Du. _maal_, Swed. _mal_, also with both meanings. The ultimate source is the pre-Teutonic root _me-_ _ma-_, to measure, and the word thus stood for a marked-out point of time. MEALIE, the South African name for Indian corn or maize. The word as spelled represents the pronunciation of the Cape Dutch _milje_, an adaptation of _milho_ (_da India_), the millet of India, the Portuguese name for millet, used in South Africa for maize.