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or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.

The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee. Calf's-foot jelly, jelly made from the feet of calves. The gelatinous matter of the feet is extracted by boiling, and is flavored with sugar, essences, etc.

A combination of cardiograph and shygmograph.

Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocardris and Pericarditis. Dunglison.

Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy. "Carneous fibers." Ray.

Of a pertaining to flesh; fleshy. A distinct carnose muscle. Ray.

A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth. Wiseman.

A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.

A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.

has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.

s. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, ar…

road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. Shak.

The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap. "Open your chaps again." Shak.

A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duk…

The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.

Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.

f corduroy. Corduroy road, a roadway formed of logs laid side by side across it, as in marshy places; -- so called from its rough or ribbed surface, resembling corduroy. [U.S.]

One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.