flesh

flesh
    n 1: the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle
         tissue and fat
    2: alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo
       studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the
       spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [syn: {human body},
       {physical body}, {material body}, {soma}, {build}, {figure},
       {physique}, {anatomy}, {shape}, {bod}, {chassis}, {frame},
       {form}, {flesh}]
    3: a soft moist part of a fruit [syn: {pulp}, {flesh}]
    v 1: remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather
         manufacture
    

Flesh \Flesh\ (fl[e^]sh), n. [OE. flesch, flesc, AS. fl[=ae]sc;
   akin to OFries. fl[=a]sk, D. vleesch, OS. fl[=e]sk, OHG.
   fleisc, G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard, bacon, pork, Sw.
   fl[aum]sk.]
   1. 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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   Note: 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.
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   2. 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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            With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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   3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the
      corporeal person.
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            As if this flesh, which walls about our life,
            Were brass impregnable.               --Shak.
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   4. The human eace; mankind; humanity.
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            All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
                                                  --Gen. vi. 12.
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   5. Human nature:
      (a) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
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                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.
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   6. Kindred; stock; race.
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            He is our brother and our flesh.      --Gen. xxxvii.
                                                  27.
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   7. 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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   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.
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   {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} (Zool.), 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} (Zool.), 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.
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Flesh \Flesh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fleshed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Fleshing}.]
   1. 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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            Full bravely hast thou fleshed
            Thy maiden sword.                     --Shak.
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            The wild dog
            Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent. --Shak.
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   2. To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
      "Fleshed in triumphs." --Glanvill.
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            Old soldiers
            Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France. --Beau.
                                                  & Fl.
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   3. (Leather Manufacture) To remove flesh, membrance, etc.,
      from, as from hides.
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FLESH, n.  The Second Person of the secular Trinity.
    

Flesh
in the Old Testament denotes (1) a particular part of the body
of man and animals (Gen. 2:21; 41:2; Ps. 102:5, marg.); (2) the
whole body (Ps. 16:9); (3) all living things having flesh, and
particularly humanity as a whole (Gen. 6:12, 13); (4) mutability
and weakness (2 Chr. 32:8; comp. Isa. 31:3; Ps. 78:39). As
suggesting the idea of softness it is used in the expression
"heart of flesh" (Ezek. 11:19). The expression "my flesh and
bone" (Judg. 9:2; Isa. 58:7) denotes relationship.

  In the New Testament, besides these it is also used to denote
the sinful element of human nature as opposed to the "Spirit"
(Rom. 6:19; Matt. 16:17). Being "in the flesh" means being
unrenewed (Rom. 7:5; 8:8, 9), and to live "according to the
flesh" is to live and act sinfully (Rom. 8:4, 5, 7, 12).

  This word also denotes the human nature of Christ (John 1:14,
"The Word was made flesh." Comp. also 1 Tim. 3:16; Rom. 1:3).
    

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      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,
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      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,
      voluptuousness