Meat \Meat\ (m[=e]t), 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.
      
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            And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
            bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat.
                                                  --Gen. i. 29.
      
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            Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for
            you.                                  --Gen. ix. 3.
      
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   2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle;
      as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
      
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   3. Specifically: Dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
      
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   {Meat biscuit}. See under {Biscuit}.

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

   {Meat fly}. (Zool.) 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.
      
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Biscuit \Bis"cuit\, n. [F. biscuit (cf. It. biscotto, Sp.
   bizcocho, Pg. biscouto), fr. L. bis twice + coctus, p. p. of
   coquere to cook, bake. See {Cook}, and cf. {Bisque} a kind of
   porcelain.]
   1. A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet,
      or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship
      biscuit.
      
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            According to military practice, the bread or biscuit
            of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven.
                                                  --Gibbon.
      
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   2. A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or
      made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number
      are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.
      
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   3. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first
      baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.
      
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   4. (Sculp.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which
      vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.
      
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   {Meat biscuit}, an alimentary preparation consisting of
      matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground
      fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.
      
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