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   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.
   
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   And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat. Gen. i. 29.
   
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   Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. Gen. ix. 3.
   
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   2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, “a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat”.
   
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   3. Specifically: Dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   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.
   
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   Meat, v. t. To supply with food. [Obs.]  Tusser.
   
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   His shield well lined, his horses meated well. Chapman.
   
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