meat

1. 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. Source: opted

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

3. n. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. Source: opted

4. v. t. To supply with food. Source: opted

5. n. the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food Source: wordnet

6. n. the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone Source: wordnet

7. n. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience Source: wordnet

8. 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. To supply with food. [Obs.] Tusser. His shield well lined, his horses meated well. Chapman. Source: webster

9. To supply with food. [Obs.] Tusser.His shield well lined, his horses meated well. Chapman. Source: adambom

10. n:100 n. the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food Source: ecdict

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