What is "to meet with"

Meet \Meet\, v. t.

1. To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle.

   O, when meet now Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined !
   --Milton.

2. To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.

   Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes.
   --Milton.

3. To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December. They . . . appointed a day to meet together. --2. Macc. xiv. 2

4. To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite. To meet with.

   1. To light upon; to find; to come to; -- often with the sense of unexpectedness.

      We met with many things worthy of observation.
      --Bacon.

   2. To join; to unite in company.
      --Shak.

   3. To suffer unexpectedly; as, to meet with a fall; to meet with a loss.

   4. To encounter; to be subjected to.

      Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince.
      --Rowe.

   5. To obviate. [Obs.]
      --Bacon.