noun

1. food; esp., solid food, as distinguished from drink: now archaic or dialectal except in meat and drink
2. 1. the flesh of animals used as food; esp., the flesh of mammals and, sometimes, of fowl
   2. Informal the flesh () of a person not much meat on her bones
3. the edible, inner part the meat of a nut
4. the substance, meaning, or gist the meat of a story
5. one's quarry
6. Archaic a meal, esp. dinner

Etymology: ME mete < OE < Gmc *mad-, food, meat < IE base *mad-, to be moist, trickle > mast, Gr mastos, breast