Search the Dictionary

ally, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. Chaucer.

Corpulent; fat; having flesh.

A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay.

The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. [R.] Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.

The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.

Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. D. Jerrold.

Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.

The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites. Spenser.

A person devoted to fleshly things. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham.

The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. [R.] Shak.

One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. [R.] Shak.

A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked; hence (pl.),

A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross. The sole of his foot is fleshy. Ray.

To reduce the flesh or obesity of. [Obs.] Shelton.

To clothe with flesh. [Obs.] Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.

The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon.

To incarnate.

To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton. "Unfleshed humanity." Wordsworth.