MEATS

Noun

meats

plural of meat

Anagrams

• AEMTs, MTase, Mesta, STEAM, Satem, a-stem, mates, matse, matés, metas, satem, stame, steam, tames, teams

Source: Wiktionary


MEAT

Meat, n. Etym: [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. 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.

Meat, v. t.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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