*meat*

{ , n. (Bot.) Duckweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupt. for farce-meat, fr. F. farce stuffing. See Farce, n. ] (Cookery) Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. [ Written also forced meat. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The flesh of horses used as food.
Syn. -- horseflesh. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intermeare, intermeatum; to go between; inter between + meare to go. ] A flowing between. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat. Gen. i. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. Gen. ix. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Specifically: Dinner; the chief meal. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To supply with food. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

His shield well lined, his horses meated well. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fed; fattened. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having (such) meat; -- used chiefly in composition; as, thick-meated. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ See Mead. ] A sweet liquor; mead. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being meaty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no meat; without food. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Leave these beggars meatless.” Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Meatus + -scope. ] (Med.) A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Meatus + Gr. &unr_; to cut. ] (Surg.) An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. sing. & pl.; E. pl. Meatuses [ L., a going, passage, fr. meare to go. ] (Anat.) A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding in meat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Permeated p. pr. & vb. n. Permeating. ] [ L. permeatus, p. p. of permeare to permeate; per + meare to go, pass. ] 1. To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enter and spread through; to pervade; as, after the first setback, the team became permeated with pessimism. [ 1913 Webster ]

God was conceived to be diffused throughout the whole world, to permeate and pervade all things. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. p. p. of permeate; as, Her poems are permeated with sorrow. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual permeation and inexistence. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Spreading throughout.
Syn. -- permeant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The smew. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food. “Diet most upon spoon-meats.” Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The paint used in making patent leather. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. transmeabilis. ] Capable of being passed over or traversed; passable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. transmeatus, p. p. of transmeare to pass across; trans across, over + meare to go. ] To pass over or beyond. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of transmeating; a passing through or beyond. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]