Meat /(mēt)/

Meat

n.
  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.
    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. Dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.]

Phrases & Compounds
Meat biscuit
See under Biscuit.
Meat earth
vegetable mold.
Meat fly
See Flesh fly, under Flesh.
Meat offering
an offering of food, esp. of a cake made of flour with salt and oil.
To go to meat
to go to a meal.
To sit at meat
to sit at the table in taking food.

Meat

v. t.
  1. To supply with food. [Obs.]
    His shield well lined, his horses meated well.