Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Meat \Meat\, 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.

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

            Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for
            you.                                  --Gen. ix. 3.

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

   3. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   {Meat biscuit}. See under {Biscuit}.

   {Meat earth} (Mining), vegetable mold. --Raymond.

   {Meat fly}. (Zo["o]l.) 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.