| meat | 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. "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; especially, animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat. 3. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. Meat biscuit. See Biscuit. <chemical> Meat earth, vegetable mold. Meat fly. <zoology> An offering of food, especially. Of a cake made of flour with salt and oil. To go to meat, to go to a meal. To sit at meat, to sit at the table in taking food. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| meat products | Articles of food which are derived by a process of manufacture from any portion of carcasses of any animal used for food (e.g., head cheese, sausage, scrapple). (12 Dec 1998) |
| meat-packing industry | The aggregate enterprise of technically producing packaged meat. (12 Dec 1998) |
| meatal | Relating to a meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatal cartilage | The cartilage that forms the wall of the lateral part of the external acoustic meatus. It is incomplete above and is firmly attached to the margins of the bony part of the external meatus. Synonym: cartilago meatus acustici, meatal cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatal spine | Small bony prominence anterior to the supramastoid pit at the posterosuperior margin of the bony external acoustic meatus. Synonym: spina suprameatica, Henle's spine, meatal spine, spina meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meato- | Meatus. Origin: L. Meatus, passage (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatometer | An instrument for measuring the size of a meatus, especially the meatus of the urethra. Origin: meato-+ G. Metron, measure (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatoplasty | Plastic surgery of a meatus or canal, e.g., the external auditory meatus or the urethral meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatorrhaphy | Closing by suture of the wound made by performing a meatomy. Origin: meato-+ G. Rhaphe, suture (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatoscope | <instrument> A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra. Origin: Meatus + -scope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| meatoscopy | Inspection, usually instrumental, of any meatus, especially of the meatus of the urethra. Origin: meato-+ G. Skopeo, to view (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatotome | <surgery> An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice. Origin: Meatus + Gr. To cut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| meatotomy | An incision made to enlarge a meatus, e.g., of the urethra or ureter. Origin: meato-+ G. Tome, incision (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatus | <anatomy> A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. Origin: L, a going, passage, fr. Meare to go. (11 Mar 1998) |
| duck's-meat | <botany> Duckweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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