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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Meat

Meat (mēt), 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.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat. Gen. i. 29.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. Gen. ix. 3.

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

3. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Meat biscuit. See under Biscuit. — Meat earth (Mining), vegetable mold. Raymond. — Meat fly. (Zoöl.) 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.

Meat, v. t. To supply with food. [Obs.] Tusser.

His shield well lined, his horses meated well. Chapman.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.