- Meat
- Meat Meat (m[=e]t), n. [OE. mete, AS. mete; akin to OS. mat,
meti, D. met hashed meat, G. mettwurst sausage, OHG. maz
food, Icel. matr, Sw. mat, Dan. mad, Goth. mats. Cf. {Mast}
fruit, {Mush}.]
1. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either
by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as,
the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. --Chaucer.
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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat. --Gen. i. 29. [1913 Webster]
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. --Gen. ix. 3. [1913 Webster]
2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat. [1913 Webster]
3. Specifically: Dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
{Meat biscuit}. See under {Biscuit}.
{Meat earth} (Mining), vegetable mold. --Raymond.
{Meat fly}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Flesh fly}, under {Flesh}.
{Meat offering} (Script.), an offering of food, esp. of a cake made of flour with salt and oil.
{To go to meat}, to go to a meal. [Obs.]
{To sit at meat}, to sit at the table in taking food. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
