meat

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The edible flesh of animals, especially that of mammals as opposed to that of fish or poultry.
2. n. The edible part, as of a piece of fruit or a nut.
3. n. The essence, substance, or gist: the meat of the editorial.
4. n. Slang Something that one enjoys or excels in; a forte: Tennis is his meat.
5. n. Nourishment; food: "Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink” ( Edna St. Vincent Millay).
6. n. Vulgar Slang The human body regarded as an object of sexual desire.
7. n. Vulgar Slang The genitals.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Food in general; nourishment of any kind.
2. n. Solid food of any kind: as, meat and drink.
3. n. The flesh of warm-blooded animals ordinarily killed for food; butcher-meat; flesh-meat: as, to abstain from meat but eat fish on Friday: in a narrower sense, the flesh of mammals used for food: as, to prefer meat to fowl or fish; bear-meat; deer-meat.
4. n. The edible part of something: as, the meat of an egg, of a nut, or of a shell-fish: sometimes with a plural: as, the meats of nuts or of oysters.
5. n. The taking of food or a meal; the act of eating meat, in the original sense of the word: as. grace before meat.
6. n. Dinner.
7. n. An animal or animals collectively, as used or hunted for food: as, to kill meat for an exploring party. [Local.]
8. n. Meat which must be well cooked, leaving no trace of bloodiness, as veal.
9. To supply with food; feed.
10. An obsolete spelling of meet.
11. n. plural The trade-name for cottonseed from which the remains of fiber (‘lint’) and husk (‘hulls’) have been removed and which is ready for crushing.

Wiktionary

1. n. Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also term. [from 8th c.]
2. n. A type of food, a dish. [from 9th c.]
3. n. A meal. [from 9th c.]
4. n. The flesh of an animal used as food. [from 14th c.]
5. n. Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc. [from 15th c.]
6. n. The penis. [from 16th c.]
7. n. A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance. [from 16th c.]
8. n. The best or most substantial part of something. [from 19th c.]
9. n. The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.). [from 20th c.]
10. n. A meathead.
11. n. A totem; metonymy for its owner(s).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything.
2. n. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle.
3. n. Dinner; the chief meal.
4. v. To supply with food.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
2. n. the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
3. n. the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food