| Meatus | ‖n. sing. & pl.; E. pl. Meatuses [ L., a going, passage, fr. meare to go. ] (Anat.) A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Meat | 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]
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