meat

Definitions

1. 1.Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. Gen. ix.
2. 2.2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
3. 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.
4. 4.To supply with food. [Obs.] Tusser. His shield well lined, his horses meated well. Chapman.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. Gen. ix called?
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