Noun

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w), XXV:

I was anhongred, and ye gave me meate . I thursted, and ye gave me drinke.

* , II.8:

And he was pleased to accompany them in their death; for, he pined away by abstaining from all manner of meat .

* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Timon of Athens) :

Your greatest want is, you want much of meat : / Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes.

* 1879 , (Silas Hocking),

As full of fun and frolic as an egg is full of meat .

* 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber, 2007, p.13:

The way she said ‘dinner’ and the way she said ‘champagne’ gave meat and liquid their exact difference.

* :

And thenne he blewe his horne that the maronners had yeuen hym / And whanne they within the Castel herd that horne / they put forthe many knyghtes and there they stode vpon the walles / and said with one voys / welcome be ye to this castel // and sire Palomydes entred in to the castel / And within a whyle he was serued with many dyuerse metes

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w), ch. 8:

And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.

(label) The flesh of an animal used as food.

* 2010 , Andy Atkins, The Guardian , 19 October:

While people who eat no meat at all are identified and identifiable as vegetarians, there is no commonly accepted term for people who eat it only a couple of times a week and are selective about its quality.

(label) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.

(label) A penis.

* 1993 , Nancy Friday, Women on top: how real life has changed women's sexual fantasies , page 538

He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.

* 2006 John Patrick, Play Hard, Score Big , page 54

Just the tight, hot caress of his bowels surrounding my meat gave me pleasures I had only dreamed of before that day.

* 2011 , Wade Wright, Two Straight Guys , page 41

Both men were completely, and very actively into this face fucking! Suddenly Bill pulled off of Jim's meat and said,

(label) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.

(label) The best or most substantial part of something.

* 1577 , (Gerald Eades Bentley), The Arte of Angling

it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.

(label) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).

A meathead.

(label) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.

* 1949 , Oceania , Vol.XX

When a stranger comes to an aboriginal camp or settlement in north-western NSW, he is asked by one of the older aborigines: "What meat (clan) are you?"

* 1973 , M. Fennel & A. Grey, Nucoorilma

Granny Sullivan was ‘dead against’ the match at first because they did not know "what my meat was and because I was a bit on the fair side."

* 1977 , A. K. Eckermann, Group Organisation and Identity

Some people maintained that she was "sung" because her family had killed or eaten the "meat " (totem) of another group.

* 1992 , P. Taylor, Tell it Like it Is

Our familyusually married the red kangaroo "meat ".

* 1993, J. Janson, Gunjies

That’s a beautiful goanna.. He’s my meat , can’t eat him.

Noun

(label) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder . It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}

* 1984 , Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard, The Oxford companion to children's literature , page 275:

It may be guessed, indeed, that this was the original form of the story, the fairy being the addition of those who considered Jack's thefts from (and murder of) the giant to be scarcely justified without her.

* 2003 , Paul Ruditis, Star Trek Voyager: Companion (ISBN 0743417518), page 131:

Captain Sulu, who served under the legendary James T. Kirk for many years, disobeys Starfleet orders in order to try and help Kirk and another old shipmate, Dr. McCoy, who have been imprisoned for the murder of the Klingon chancellor.

* 2011 , Carlene Brennen, Hemingway's Cats (ISBN 1561644897), page 161:

Dr. Herrera also knew Hemingway had held Batista's army personally responsible for the brutal murders of his dogs, Blackie (Black Dog) and Machakos.

(label) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.

* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, author=Ed Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian

, title= Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , passage=Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.

The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.

Something terrible to endure.

(label) A group of crows;

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* {{quote-book, 2001, (Daniel Handler), The Vile Village, isbn=0064408655, page=76

, passage=Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton.}}