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ose to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear. His daughter came out to meet him. Judg. xi. 34.

To render fit. [R.]

One who meets.

, Mead. See Meathe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.

A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.

Fitly; suitably; properly.

Fitness; suitableness; propriety.

To meet. [Obs.] Our very loving sister, well bemet. Shak.

lpmate. The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. J. H. Newman.

A meeting for mirth.

A religious service mainly in song. [Local, U. S.]

To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot. [Obs.]

Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for. "Unmeet for a wife." Tennyson. And all unmeet our carpet floors. Emerson. -- Un*meet"ly, adv. -- Un*meet"ness, n.

A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.

To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

or point of view, where a line drawn from the eye perpendicular to the perspective plane meets this plane. -- Accidental lights (Paint.), secondary lights; effects of light other than ordinary daylight, such as the rays of the sun darting through a cloud, or between the leaves of trees; the effect of moonlight, candl…

th; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

y, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this co…

as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.