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To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." Sir T. Browne.

rotuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

To harden. [Obs.] It will embrawn and iron-crust his flesh. Nash.

To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.] Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave. Spenser.

Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars.

To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. "The blood . . . erodes the vessels." Wiseman. The smaller charge is more apt to . . . erode the gun. Am. Cyc.

Valuable; worth a great price. [R.] A pound of man's flesh, taken from a man, Is not so estimable, profitable neither, As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. Shak.

At any time; at any period or point of time. No man ever yet hated his own flesh. Eph. v. 29.

To deprive or clear of flesh. Grew.

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

To clear of flesh; to excarnate. Dr. H. More.

The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation. Johnson.

The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

rn by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. -- To fall away. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. "These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away." Luk…

adence. -- False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus. -- False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane.…

Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

Wearied; tired; fatigued. [Obs.] Requickened what in flesh was fatigate. Shak.

The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7.

To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

Indicating, or caused by, fear. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. Shak.