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A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.

The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.

One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.

Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together. King.

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.

Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver. To levy blackmail, to extort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation.

ods. -- Bladder worm (Zoöl.), the larva of any species of tapeworm (Tænia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus. -- Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.

ammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit. Lindley.

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

The fleshy nature of man. Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. Shak.

To deposit eggs or larvæ upon, or in (meat, etc.). To suffer The flesh fly blow my mouth. Shak. To blow great guns, to blow furiously and with roaring blasts; -- said of the wind at sea or along the coast. -- To blow off, to empty (a boiler) of water through the blow-off pipe, while under steam pressure; also, to ejec…

mals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

Swinish; brutal; cruel. In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shak.

usually in composition; as, able-bodied. A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt.

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." Soyer.

Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food.