Meaning of 'flesh' (Webster Dictionary)
- The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which
cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the
muscles.
- Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat;
especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished
from fish.
- The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the
corporeal person.
- The human eace; mankind; humanity.
- Human nature
- In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
- In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure;
desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
- The character under the influence of animal propensities or
selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
- Kindred; stock; race.
- The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a
root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
- To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion;
to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding
them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon
flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the
first time.
- To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
- To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
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