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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

... eat when an army of rats and mice rushed in, and de-voured all the meat before any one could hinder them. The captain wondered at this, and asked if it was not very un-pleas-ant to have so many rats and ...

— Fifty Famous Stories Retold • James Baldwin

... their future proceedings, and at noon, in pursuance of their design, they hoisted out the longboat, and placed in her a couple of breakers of water, a bag of biscuit, and a few pieces of salt meat. ...

— The South Seaman - An Incident In The Sea Story Of Australia - 1901 • Louis Becke

... to be back before midnight," I said, "for we can make the round trip in less than three hours. And I'll promise venison for breakfast—or perhaps moose meat." ...

— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon

... their wants are few, and their nomadic life is unfavourable to the growth of a liking for luxuries. They live chiefly upon milk and butter, with tea for their favourite beverage. Their bill of fare also includes meat, and particularly horse-flesh, which they prefer to any other, but they do not eat it raw, as some writers have pretended. As for cereals, which Europeans value so highly, their use is scarcely known; it is at ...

— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams

... Perhaps you will ask me what is the bearing of these remarks? 'We would gladly hear.' I will endeavour to explain their drift. I see that the virtue of human life depends on the due regulation of three wants or desires. The first is the desire of meat, the second of drink; these begin with birth, and make us disobedient to any voice other than that of pleasure. The third and fiercest and greatest need is felt latest; this is love, which is a madness setting men's whole nature on fire. These three disorders of mankind we must endeavour to ...

— Laws • Plato

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