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Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars.

The act or practice of feeding on horseflesh.

arolinense. -- Horse parsley. (Bot.) See Alexanders. -- Horse purslain (Bot.), a coarse fleshy weed of tropical America (Trianthema monogymnum). -- Horse race, a race by horses; a match of horses in running or trotting. -- Horse racing, the practice of racing with horses. -- Horse railroad, a railroad on which the…

A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.

of Hang. Hung beef, the fleshy part of beef slightly salted and hung up to dry; dried beef.

A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.

Wanting beauty or attractiveness; deformed; ugly; ill-looking. Ill-favored and lean-fleshed. Gen. xli. 3. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ly, adv. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ness, n.

To cover or invest with flesh. [R.] Wiseman.

Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color. [Obs.] Lovelace.

Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.] I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. Richardson.

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

Causing new flesh to grow; healing; regenerative. -- n.

The act of assuming, or state of being clothed with, flesh; incarnation.

. 1 Cor. xv. 42. The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc. Sir T. Browne.

alled in the West Indies. (b) See China pink, under China. -- Indian pipe (Bot.), a low, fleshy herb (Monotropa uniflora), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying. -- Indian plantain (Bot.), a name given to…

me other substance. Ingrowing nail, one whose edges are becoming imbedded in the adjacent flesh.

To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.

municating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.

An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.

Hedera helix). -- German ivy (Bot.), a creeping plant, with smooth, succulent stems, and fleshy, light-green leaves; a species of Senecio (S. scandens). -- Ground ivy. (Bot.) Gill (Nepeta Glechoma). -- Ivy bush. (Bot.) See Mountain laurel, under Mountain. -- Ivy owl (Zoöl.), the barn owl. -- Ivy tod (Bot.), the iv…