meatless (metles)

[ME. meteles, titute of meat; without food. Thre dawes and thre nygt meteles hii wuste hem so, That hii nuste hou on take, ne wat vor hunger do. Rob . of Gloucester , p. 170. Growling over his unenvied virtue as a cur growls over a meatle bone. G. H. Lewes, Hist. Philos., I. 194. meat-maggot (met'ma"got), n. The larva of 4. The edible part of something: as, the meat of an egg, of a nut, or of a shell-fish: some times with a plural: as, the meats of nuts or of the flesh-fly, Calliphora vomitoria , found in IMG:content-0386.png:[blocks in formation]