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lars. 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,…

A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.

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.

Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless. [R.] "Yellow, chapless skulls." Shak.

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

One who cherishes. The cherisher of my flesh and blood. 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.

To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh. Wiseman.

Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.

A citron melon. Citron melon. (a) A small variety of muskmelon with sugary greenish flesh. (b) A small variety of watermelon, whose solid white flesh is used in making sweetmeats and preserves. -- Citron tree (Bot.), the tree which bears citrons. It was probably a native of northern India, and is now understood to be…

Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. -- n.

That which serves for payment or recompense. The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin. Hammond. Coin balance. See Illust. of Balance. -- To pay one in his own coin, to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him. [Colloq.]

A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh. Shak. Sweetbread and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden.

Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops. With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.

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.

ed together; intimately connocted. [R.] We are of Him and in Him, even as though our very flesh and bones should be made continuate with his. Hooker.

Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.

Corrosive. [Obs.] Corrasive sores which eat into the flesh. Holland.

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