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t right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.

arm; also, an abode; a place of residence; as, he let his land to ferm. [Obs.] Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain. Spenser.

ith water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.

The state of being filthy. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 2 Cor. vii. 1.

mpressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.

The flesh of fish, used as food.

y moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

nd stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh. Religious profession . . . has become flacced. I. Taylor. -- Flac"cid*ly, adv. -- Flac"cid*ness, n.

The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the rids and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.

Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.

To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.

Having the flesh readily separating from the stone, as in certain kinds of peaches.

ate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.

A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds. Hoblyn.

To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh. Grievously gashed or gored to death. Hayward.

grim. "The gaunt mastiff." Pope. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. Nichols.

A small piece of flesh; a slice. [Obs.] The rest in giggots cut, they spit. Chapman.

The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.

species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.