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.

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

His shield well lined, his horses meated well.

Chapman.

Me*a"tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus.

Owen.

Meat"ed (?), a. 1. Fed; fattened. [Obs.] Tusser.

2. Having (such) meat; -- used chiefly in composition; as,

thick-meated.

{ Meath, Meathe (?) }, n. [See Mead.] A sweet liquor; mead. [Obs.]

Chaucer. Milton.

Meat"i*ness (?), n. Quality of being meaty.

Meat"less, a. Having no meat; without food.

"Leave these beggars meatless."

Sir T. More.

Me*at"o*scope (?), n. [Meatus + -scope.] (Med.) A speculum for

examining a natural passage, as the urethra.

Me*at"o*tome (?), n. [Meatus + Gr. &?; to cut.] (Surg.) An instrument

for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.

||Me*a"tus (?), n. sing. & pl.; E. pl. Meatuses (&?;). [L., a going,

||passage, fr. meare to go.] (Anat.) A natural passage or canal; as,

||the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.

Meat"y (?), a. Abounding in meat.

Meaw (?), n. The sea mew. [Obs.] Spenser.

Meaw, v. i. See Mew, to cry as a cat.

Meawl (?), v. i. See Mewl, and Miaul.

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