meat

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The edible flesh of animals, especially that of mammals as opposed to that of fish or poultry.
• noun The edible part, as of a piece of fruit or a nut.
• noun The essence, substance, or gist.
• noun Slang Something that one enjoys or excels in; a forte.
• noun Nourishment; food.
• noun The human body regarded as an object of sexual desire.
• noun The genitals.
• idiom (meat and potatoes) The fundamental parts or part; the basis.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun 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.
• To supply with food; feed.
• An obsolete spelling of meet.
• noun Food in general; nourishment of any kind.
• noun Solid food of any kind: as, meat and drink.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun The taking of food or a meal; the act of eating meat, in the original sense of the word: as. grace before meat.
• noun Dinner.
• noun An animal or animals collectively, as used or hunted for food: as, to kill meat for an exploring party. [Local.]
• noun Meat which must be well cooked, leaving no trace of bloodiness, as veal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything.
• noun The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle.
• noun obsolete Dinner; the chief meal.
• noun See under Biscuit.
• noun (Mining) vegetable mold.
• noun (Zoöl.) See Flesh fly, under Flesh.
• noun (Script.) an offering of food, esp. of a cake made of flour with salt and oil.
• noun [Obs.] to go to a meal.
• noun to sit at the table in taking food.
• transitive verb obsolete To supply with food.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A meathead.
• noun Australian Aboriginal A totem; metonymy for its owner(s).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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