FLESH
\flˈɛʃ], \flˈɛʃ], \f_l_ˈɛ_ʃ]\
Definitions of FLESH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
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Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
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The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
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The human eace; mankind; humanity.
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In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
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In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
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The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
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Kindred; stock; race.
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The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
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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.
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To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
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To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
By Oddity Software
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The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
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Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
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The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
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The human eace; mankind; humanity.
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In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
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In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
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The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
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Kindred; stock; race.
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The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
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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.
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To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
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To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
By Noah Webster.
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That part of an animal body beneath the skin, composed of soft muscular tissue; animal food; pulp of fruit, etc.; the body: opposite to soul; human nature or race; present life; kindred.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The soft substance which covers the bones of animals; animal food; the bodies of beasts and birds, not fish; the body, not the soul; animals or animal nature; mankind; bodily appetites; the present life; the soft substance of fruit; the part of a fruit fit to be eaten.
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To train to an appetite for flesh, as dogs for hunting; to accustom; to glut; to use upon flesh, as a sword, esp. for the first time.
By Daniel Lyons
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Soft solids of animal bodies; the body; animal nature; mankind; soft substance of fruits.
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To accustom to flesh; use upon flesh.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To glut with flesh; satiate; also, to tempt with a taste of flesh, as a dog; embolden with success; flush.
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The softer tissues of an animal body; the soft part of fruits and vegetables; the body as opposed to the soul; the carnal or sinful nature; the human race.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The soft, solid, muscular part of an animal body; animal food, in distinction from vegetable; the bodies of beasts and birds used as food, distinct from fish; the body, as distinguished from the soul; animal nature; animals of all kinds; mankind; human nature; bodily appetites; a carnal unrenewed state; human nature as it is, without God; the present state of existence; kindred; the soft pulpy substance of fruit.
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To train to an appetite for, as hawks or dogs, by feeding them with the first game they take; to harden; to accustom; to satiate. To be one flesh, to be closely united, as in marriage. An arm of flesh, human strength or aid.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That part of an animal underlying the skin or covering, as distinguished from the bones and fluids; the body, as distinguished from the soul; human nature; carnal state; sensual appetite; kindred; family.
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Of or like flesh, as flesh-coloured, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Every soft part of an animal is so named; but more particularly the muscles, which are called muscular flesh.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, German] The muscles, fat, &c., covering the framework of bones in animals;—animal food, as distinguished from vegetable;—the flesh of beasts and fowls, as distinguished from fish;—animal nature; animals of all kinds;—the body, as distinguished from the soul;—human nature;—men in general; mankind;—fleshly appetites or tendencies; carnality;—natural or unrenewed state;—corrupt nature or frame of the body;—kindred; stock; race;—the soft pulpy substance of fruit; that part of a root, fruit, &c., which is fit to be eaten.
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The body distinguished from the soul; the muscles distinguished from the skin, bones, tendons; animal food distinguished from vegetable; the body of beasts or birds used in food, distinct from fishes; animal nature; carnality, corporal appetites; near relation; the outward or literal sense. The Orientals termed the immediate or literal signification of any precept or type The Flesh, and the remote or typical meaning The Spirit. This is frequent in St. Paul.
By Thomas Sheridan
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