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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MEAT , a word originally applied to See also:

food in See also:general, and so still used in such phrases as " meat and drink "; but now, except as an archaism, generally used of the flesh of certain domestic animals, slaughtered for human food by butchers, " See also:butcher's meat," as opposed to " See also:game," that of See also:wild animals, " See also:fish " or " poultry." Cognate forms of the O. Eng. mete are found in certain See also:Teutonic See also:languages, e.g. Swed. See also:mat, See also:Dan. mad and O. H. Ger. Mae. The ultimate origin has been disputed; the New See also:English See also:Dictionary considers probable a connexion with the See also:root med-, " to he See also:fat," seen in Sansk. meda, See also:Lat. madere, " to be wet," and Eng. " See also:mast," the See also:fruit of the See also:beech as food for pigs. See See also:DIETETICS; FOOD PRESERVATION; PUBLIC See also:HEALTH; See also:AGRICULTURE; and the sections dealing with agricultural See also:statistics under the names of the various countries.

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