meat1 (met)

[ The Camaylle fynt alle wey Mete in Trees and on Bu hes, that he fedethe him with. Mandeville , Travels, p. 58. Blysful was the fyrst age of men: they heldyn hem apayed with the metes that the trewe feeldes browhten forth. Chaucer, Boëthius, ii. meter 5. pertaining to a meatus; having the character of a meatus. IMG:content-0384.png:[blocks in formation] The upper part of this [overburden) consists of soil, or meat earth. Spons' Encyc. Manuf ., I. 638. meated (mē'ted), a . Having meat or a fleshy part (of a specified kind): used in composition: as, a sweet- meated nut; light- meated or dark meated fowls. t'sa), A saw used by butchers, having a thin, narrow blade fastened in an iron frame or bow, which gives it rigidity. is furnished; a high tea (which see, under high ). meat-tea (met'te), n. A tea at which flesh-meat [Vulgar.] A good hearty meat - tea being the usual premier pas in amatory matters. G. A. Sala , Baddington Peerage, I. 120. meatus (me-a'tus), n.; pl. meatus , sometimes, as English, meatuses . [ meatus , a pa age, meare , go. Cf. congel, permeate.] In an at., a pa age: applied to various ducts of the body. - Inferior meatus (of the nose), the pa age in the nose between the inferior turbinate bone and the floor of the nasal cavity. Also called meatus ventral is.Meatus acusticus. See meatus auditor i us. Meatus auditor i us extern us, the external opening of the ear, closed at the bottom by the membrana tympani. Also intern us, the pa age in the petrous bone by which meatus acusticus extern us. - Meatus auditor i us the auditory and facial nerves leave the cranial cavity. Also called meatus acusticus intern us. Meatus cystic us, the gall-duct. - Meatus urinarius, the external orifice of the urethra. Meatus venosus, the short trunk formed by the union of the right and left vitelline or omphalomesenteric veins in the fetus. - Meatus ventral is, the inferior nasal meatus. - Middle meatus (of the nose), the pa age in the nose between the inferior turbinate part of the ethmoid bone and the inferior turbinate bone. Nasal meatus ( pl. ), the nasal pa ages between and below the turbinated parts of the ethmoid and the in ferior turbinate bones. - Superior meatus (of the nose), the pa age in the nose between the turbinate parts (superior and inferior) of the ethmoid bone.