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noun

Meat n.

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. "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,... to you it shall be for meat." "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you."

The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.

Specifically: Dinner; the chief meal. (Obs.)

Meat biscuit. See under Biscuit.

Meat earth (Mining), vegetable mold.

Meat fly. (Zool.) 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.

verb

Meat v. t. To supply with food. (Obs.) "His shield well lined, his horses meated well."

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"Meat" Quotes from Famous Books

... begun by the aforesaid flies, the pair adopted Tim's suggestion and hopped to it. Manfully they assailed the rubbery jerked beef, black beans, rice, farinha, and thick, black, unsweetened coffee which comprised the meal. All three were wrestling with chunks of the meat when Tim, facing the door, stopped ...

— The Pathless Trail • Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel

... in German prison camps," growled Bart. "Horrible food, mouldy crusts, rotten meat, and not enough of that to keep body and soul together. In a few months the men are little more than skeletons. They work them sixteen or eighteen hours a day in all kinds of weather. They set dogs on them and prod them with bayonets. Did you read of the forty they tortured ...

— Army Boys on the Firing Line - or, Holding Back the German Drive • Homer Randall

... dead of night their tale of armed men, And by to-morrow night, which is the eve Of the feast, five hundred men-at-arms or more Will there lie hid. These, when the festival Has spent itself, and the drowsed citizens, Heavy with meat and wine, are fast asleep, Will issue forth at midnight and will seize The guardians of the gates, and throw them open To an o'erwhelmmg force which fills the ships Which lie within the harbour. For the rest, Cherson ...

— Gycia - A Tragedy in Five Acts • Lewis Morris

... thought. As Wallace thus in the thick forest sought, For his two men in mind he had great pain, He wist not well if they were ta'en or slain, Or 'scaped haill[13] by any jeopardy. Thirteen were left with him, no more had he; In the Gaskhall their lodging have they ta'en. Fire got they soon, but meat then had they nane; Two sheep they took beside them of a fold, Ordain'd to sup into that seemly hold: Graithed[14] in haste some food for them to dight:[15] So heard they blow rude horns upon height. Two ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... had heard these words he returned promptly to the city of Medina. Arriving at a shop where they sold flour, he bought some and put it into a sack. In another shop he bought some meat. Then lifting the sack to his shoulders he carried it out of the city. ...

— Malayan Literature • Various Authors

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