Meat

mēt, n. anything eaten as food, the edible part of anything: act of taking meat: ( obs. ) meal, flour: the flesh of animals used as food—sometimes beef, mutton, pork, veal, ., as opposed to poultry, fish, .— ns. Meat′-bis′cuit , a preparation of meat, made with meal into a biscuit; Meat′ine , quality of being meaty; Meat′-off′ering , a Jewish sacrificial offering of fine flour or first-fruits with oil and frankincense; Meat′-pie , a pie mainly made up of meat; Meat′-safe , a receptacle for storing meat, walled with perforated zinc or gauze; Meat′-sales′man , one who sells meat, esp. to the retail butchers; Meat′-tea , a high tea, at which meat is served; Meat′-tub , a pickling-tub.— adj. Meat′y , full of meat: fleshy: pithy.— Hang meat , to hang up meat before cooking; Sit at meat , to sit at table. [A.S. mete ; Dut. met .]