Definition: meat

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

meat
     n 1: the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails)
          used as food
     2: the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut
        or fruit stone: "black walnut kernels are difficult to get
        out of the shell" [syn: kernel]
     3: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some
        idea or experience: "the gist of the prosecutor's
        argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party";
        "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core,
         center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness,
         marrow, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]

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.
Meat \Meat\, v. t.
   To supply with food. [Obs.] --Tusser.

         His shield well lined, his horses meated well.
                                                  --Chapman.