mĕātus — Lewis & Short
mĕātus, ūs, m.id.,
I a going, passing, motion, course (poet. and post-Aug.).
I Lit.:
solis lunaeque meatus,Lucr. 1, 128:
caeli,Verg. A. 6, 850:
aquilae,flight, Tac. H. 1, 62:
spiritus,i. e. the breathing, respiration, Quint. 7, 10, 10:
animae,Plin. Ep. 6 16, 13. —
II Transf., concr., a way, path, passage, Val. Fl. 3, 403:
meatum vomiticnibus praeparare,Plin. 19, 5, 26, § 85:
spirandi,id. 28, 13, 55, § 197: cur signa meatus Deseruere suos, left their paths, i. e. became darkened, eclipsed, Luc. 1, 664:
Danubius in Ponticum sex meatibus erumpit,discharges itself through six channels, Tac. G. 1; cf.:
bifido meatu divisus Rhenus,divided into two channels, Claud. B. G. 336. —
B The avenues of sensation in the body:
homo septem meatus habet in capite, duos oculos, etc.,Mart. Cap. 7, § 739.