, but contains in adition a large number of crystalline bodies, such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin, carnin, etc. It is also rich in phosphate of potash.

2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.

With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. --Chaucer.

3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.

As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable. --Shak.

4. The human eace; mankind; humanity.

All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. --Gen. vi. 12.

5. Human nature:
   (a) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. --Cowper.
   (b) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
   (c) (Theol.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.

6. Kindred; stock; race.

He is our brother and our flesh. --Gen. xxxvii. 27.

7. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.

Note: 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.

After the flesh, after the manner of man; in a gross or earthly manner. ``Ye judge after the flesh.'' --John viii. 15.

An arm of flesh, human strength or aid.

Flesh and blood. See under Blood.

Flesh broth, broth made by boiling flesh in water.

Flesh fly (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of flies whose larv[ae] or maggots feed upon flesh, as the bluebottle fly; -- called also meat fly, carrion fly, and blowfly. See Blowly.

Flesh meat, animal food. --Swift.

Flesh side, the side of a skin or hide which was next to the flesh; -- opposed to grain side.

Flesh tint (Painting), a color used in painting to imitate the hue of the living body.

Flesh worm (Zo["o]l.), any insect larva of a flesh fly. See Flesh fly (above).

Proud flesh. See under Proud.

To be one flesh, to be closely united as in marriage; to become as one person. --Gen. ii. 24.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)