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WordInfo
Morphology
Lemmata
Forms: meta (data provider: donatus-sup), mete (data provider: donatus)
Dictionary
Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Méta, s. f.
1. dung of any animal; 2. cow's dung; 3. bound, limit, butt, boundary.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
meta: an high Piramides. Also a Beacon. Also a land or sea-marke. Also a marke, an ayme or But to shoot or leuell at, a marke or gole in the field whereunte men or herses run, a staffe or stake set at the end of a race. Aso a bound, a confine, a limite, a Mearestone. Also a stacke of Corne, aricke of Hay, a pile of wood, &c. Also the size of any thing or limitation. Also a kind of high-growing Piramidall Cipresse-tree, it hath beene also taken for a high, great and soft turd.