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Of or pertaining to the body or is appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual. For ye are yet carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after miracles. Trench.

The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind. Because of the carnality of their hearts. Tillotson.

According to the flesh, to the world, or to human nature; in a manner to gratify animal appetites and lusts; sensually. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom. viii. 6.

Adapted to eating flesh. -- n.

Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton.

Having a flesh color.

A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals.

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

Of or pertaining to flesh; specif. (Physiol. Chem.),

The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.

To form flesh; to become like flesh. Sir M. Hale.

g the lion, tiger, wolf bear, seal, etc. They are adapted by their structure to feed upon flesh, though some of them, as the bears, also eat vegetable food. The teeth are large and sharp, suitable for cutting flesh, and the jaws powerful.

Greediness of appetite for flesh. [Sportive.] Pope.

Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

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

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

The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser.

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.