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CIDE DICTIONARY
Flesh, n. [OE. flesch, flesc, AS. fl; akin to OFries. flāsk, D. vleesch, OS. fl, OHG. fleisc, G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard, bacon, pork, Sw. fläsk.].
- The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles. [1913 Webster]" In composition it is mainly proteinaceous, but contains in adition a large number of low-molecular-weight subtances, such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin, carnin, etc. It is also rich in potassium phosphate." [1913 Webster]
- Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from
fish . [1913 Webster]"With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread." [1913 Webster] - The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person. [1913 Webster]"As if this flesh, which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable." [1913 Webster] - The human eace; mankind; humanity. [1913 Webster]"All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth." [1913 Webster]
- Human nature [1913 Webster]"There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart."
- Kindred; stock; race. [1913 Webster]"He is our brother and our flesh." [1913 Webster]
- The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten. [1913 Webster]" Flesh is often used adjectively or self-explaining compounds; as, flesh broth or flesh-broth; flesh brush or fleshbrush; flesh tint or flesh-tint; flesh wound." [1913 Webster]
Flesh, v. t.
- To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time. [1913 Webster]"Full bravely hast thou fleshed
Thy maiden sword." [1913 Webster]"The wild dog
Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent." [1913 Webster] - To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom. Glanvill. [1913 Webster]"Old soldiers
Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France." [1913 Webster] - To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Flesh, n. & v.
--n.
1 a the soft, esp. muscular, substance between the skin and bones of an animal or a human. b plumpness; fat (has put on flesh). c archaic meat, esp. excluding poultry, game, and offal.
2 the body as opposed to the mind or the soul, esp. considered as sinful.
3 the pulpy substance of a fruit or a plant.
4 a the visible surface of the human body with ref. to its colour or appearance. b (also flesh-colour) a yellowish pink colour.
5 animal or human life.
--v.tr.
1 embody in flesh.
2 incite (a hound etc.) by the taste of blood.
3 initiate, esp. by aggressive or violent means, esp.: a use (a sword etc.) for the first time on flesh. b use (wit, the pen, etc.) for the first time. c inflame (a person) by the foretaste of success.
--n.
1 a the soft, esp. muscular, substance between the skin and bones of an animal or a human. b plumpness; fat (has put on flesh). c archaic meat, esp. excluding poultry, game, and offal.
2 the body as opposed to the mind or the soul, esp. considered as sinful.
3 the pulpy substance of a fruit or a plant.
4 a the visible surface of the human body with ref. to its colour or appearance. b (also flesh-colour) a yellowish pink colour.
5 animal or human life.
--v.tr.
1 embody in flesh.
2 incite (a hound etc.) by the taste of blood.
3 initiate, esp. by aggressive or violent means, esp.: a use (a sword etc.) for the first time on flesh. b use (wit, the pen, etc.) for the first time. c inflame (a person) by the foretaste of success.
Idiom
all flesh all human and animal creation. flesh and blood
--n.
1 the body or its substance.
2 humankind.
3 human nature, esp. as being fallible.
--adj. actually living, not imaginary or supernatural. flesh-fly (pl. -flies) any fly of the family Sarcophagidae that deposits eggs or larvae in dead flesh. flesh out make or become substantial. flesh side the side of a hide that adjoined the flesh. flesh tints flesh-colours as rendered by a painter. flesh-wound a wound not reaching a bone or a vital organ. in the flesh in bodily form, in person. lose (or put on) flesh grow thinner or fatter. make a person's flesh creep frighten or horrify a person, esp. with tales of the supernatural etc. one flesh (of two people) intimately united, esp. by virtue of marriage (Gen. 2:24). one's own flesh and blood near relatives; descendants. sins of the flesh unchastity. the way of all flesh experience common to all mankind.
--n.
1 the body or its substance.
2 humankind.
3 human nature, esp. as being fallible.
--adj. actually living, not imaginary or supernatural. flesh-fly (pl. -flies) any fly of the family Sarcophagidae that deposits eggs or larvae in dead flesh. flesh out make or become substantial. flesh side the side of a hide that adjoined the flesh. flesh tints flesh-colours as rendered by a painter. flesh-wound a wound not reaching a bone or a vital organ. in the flesh in bodily form, in person. lose (or put on) flesh grow thinner or fatter. make a person's flesh creep frighten or horrify a person, esp. with tales of the supernatural etc. one flesh (of two people) intimately united, esp. by virtue of marriage (Gen. 2:24). one's own flesh and blood near relatives; descendants. sins of the flesh unchastity. the way of all flesh experience common to all mankind.
Derivative
fleshless adj.
Etymology
OE fl{aelig}sc f. Gmc
THESAURUS
Flesh
Adam, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, Leatherette, Leatheroid, agnate, alive, all that lives, anatomy, ancestry, animalism, animality, aspic, barbecue, beastliness, bestiality, biosphere, biota, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bodiliness, bodily, body, boiled meat, bones, bouilli, brawn, brutality, brutishness, carcass, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, civet, clansman, clay, clod, coarseness, coat, cognate, coldness, collateral, collateral relative, color, concreteness, connections, consanguinean, corporality, corporeal, corporeality, corporealness, corporeity, corpus, cuticle, dermis, distaff side, distant relation, earthiness, ecosphere, embodiment, embody, enate, fallen humanity, fallen nature, fallen state, family, fell, fiber, figure, fill in, fill out, fleece, flesh and blood, fleshliness, flora and fauna, folks, forcemeat, form, frame, frigidity, fur, furring, game, generation of man, genus Homo, german, grossness, hachis, hash, hide, hominid, homo, hulk, human, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, imitation fur, imitation leather, impotence, in person, in the flesh, incorporate, integument, jacket, jerky, joint, jugged hare, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, lapsed state, le genre humain, leather, leather paper, libido, living, living matter, living nature, love, lovemaking, man, mankind, marriage, material body, materialism, materiality, materialness, meat, menue viande, mince, mortal flesh, mortality, mortals, muscle, natural, near relation, next of kin, nonspirituality, noosphere, organic matter, organic nature, organized matter, outer layer, outer skin, pelt, peltry, pemmican, people, person, personally, physical, physical body, physicality, physicalness, physique, plasm, posterity, postlapsarian state, pot roast, potency, race of man, rawhide, real, really, relations, relatives, rind, roast, sausage meat, scrapple, sensuality, sex drive, sexiness, sexual instinct, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, sheath, sib, sibling, skin, skins, soma, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, stock, substantiality, substantiate, swinishness, sword side, tegument, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, tissue, torso, tribesman, trunk, unspirituality, uterine kin, vair, venison, viande, voluptuousnessROGET THESAURUS
Flesh
Impurity
N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.Animality
N animality, animal life, animation, animality, animalization, animalness, corporeal nature, human system, breath, flesh, flesh and blood, physique, strength, fleshly, human, corporeal.Mankind
N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.Also see definition of "Flesh" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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