Meat

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To supply with food.

II. Meat ·noun Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.

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

IV. Meat ·noun 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.

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measure. N. ...

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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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·noun <<Duckweed>>. ...

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Spoon-meat
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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(Heb. minhah), originally a gift of any kind. This Hebrew word came latterly to denote an "unbloody"...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Beef and other kinds of fresh meat dried in the open air without salt. In Lower Canada and Newfoundl...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
making meat
on the great Western prairies, consists in cutting into thin slices the boneless parts of the buffal...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
dish-meat
spoon-meat. Kent. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.