flesh 
Vicious persons, when they're hot, and fleshed 
In impious acts, their constancy abounds. 
B. Jo/tgon, Volpone, iv. 2. 
He that is most flesh'd in sin, commits it not without 
some remorse. Hales, Golden Remains, p. 165. 
Her slow dogs of war, 
t'lfxhnl with the chase, come up from Italy, 
And howl upon their limits. Shelley, Hellas. 
2. To encourage by giving flesh to ; initiate to 
the taste of flesh: with reference to the prac- 
tice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them 
with the first game they take, or other flesh ; 
hence, to introduce or incite to battle or car- 
nage. 
Full bravely hast thou flesh'd 
Thy maiden sword. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 4. 
To breed a mongrel up, in his own house, 
With his own blood, and, if the good gods please, 
At his own throat flesh him to take a leap. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, iv. 5. 
Fleshed at these smaller sports, like young wolves, they 
grew up in time to be nimble and strong enough for hunt- 
ing down large game. Swift, Tale of a Tub, ill. 
3. In leather-manuf., to remove flesh, fat, and 
loose membrane from the flesh side of, as skins 
and hides. 
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which have hatched iu the oviduct, on animal matter 
(usually dead), and the larva) or mwjots quickly grow to 
full size, the round of life being very rapid. They cr:i\\ ! 
away to pupate, preferably under ground. S. sarm 
(Riley)is a variety of .S. carnari'a (Linmcus), acosiMijpolitiiii 
species and general scavenger. The larva of this variety 
feeds on the dead insects caucti* -"-- 
plants. 
I am, in my condition, 
A prince, . . . and would no more endure 
This wooden slavery, than to suffer 
The flesh-fly blow my mouth. 
Shak., Tempest, iii. 1. 
Blue flesh-fly. Same as bluebottle, 2. 
flesh-fork (flesh 'fdrk), n. A fork for trying 
meat and taking it from a boiler in cooking. 
[Kare.] 
fleshful (flesh'ful), a. [< flesh + -fnl.~\ Fat; 
plump ; abounding in flesh, 
flesh-hewert, . [ME.flesch-hewere = D. vleesch- 
AoMM)er = MLG. vleschhouwer, LG. vlesch howere. 
Cf. flesher.] A butcher. 
flesh'hud),. [< flesh + -hood.] The 
flesh-tint 
promised: and the jleshlimyes, the reprobate will] the 
plagues thret'ned. 
Con/utiitiini u/ .V. Shaxton (1546), slg. L, 5. 
fleshly (flesh'li), . [< ME. fleschli/. ftfxcl,li<-lir 
etc., < AS. flcKsclic (= OFries. flasklik D. 
DJ --- --- -- u --- L,VJ -if ^/< v \^ V-'A * i\jo. /tu-in,i en ;= u, 
feeds on the dead insects caught .n the leaves of pitcher- rleescheUjk = MLG. iiescltlik, vleslik = OHG. 
fleisclich, MHG. i-leischelich, vleischlieh, 6. 
fleisehlich), < flaisc, flesh, + -lie, E. -lyl.] 1. 
Pertaining to the flesh or body in its physical 
relations; corporeal. 
to the ills of the flesh ; incarnation. 
Thou, who hast thyself 
Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning. 
flesh-hook (flesh 'huk), n. 
One man can, it is claimed, flesh or slate about six hun- 
dred goat skins per day of ten hours. 
C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 333. fleshok, fleischhok (= D'. vleeschhaak); '< flesh + 
The hides will be very difficult to flesh, unless previously hook.] 1. A hook used in handling larffenipcps 
plumped by a light liming. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 370. 
4. To clothe with flesh ; make fleshy. 
Never are wee without two or three [deer] in the roof, 
Very well fleshed, and excellent fat. 
King and Miller of Mansfield (Child's Ballads, VIII. 37). 
Flesh me with gold, fat me with silver. 
Middleton, Spanish Gypsy, iv. 3. 
This bare sceleton of time, place, and person must be 
fleshed with some pleasant passages. Fuller, Worthies, i. 
[< ME. fleshhok, 
chhaak) ; < flesh + 
in handling large pieces 
of meat, as in pulling them from a pot, caldron, 
or barrel. 
They plead that God in the Law would have nothing 
brought into the temple, neither besoms nor flethhooks, 
nor trumpets, but those only which were sanctified. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 20. 
When any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant 
came, while the flesh was in seething, with afleshhook of 
three teeth in his hand ; and he struck it into the pan ; . . 
In the body of this fleshly land [his own person], 
This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath, 
Hostility and civil tumult reigns 
Between my conscience and my cousin's death. 
Shak.,K. John, iv. 2. 
Ministerial responsibility comes between the monarch 
and every public trial and necessity, like armor between 
flesh and the spear that would seek to pierce it ; only this 
is an armor itself also fleshly, at once living and impregna- 
b] e- Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 169. 
2. Pertaining to the flesh or body as the seat 
of appetite ; carnal ; not spiritual or divine ; in 
an extreme sense, lascivious. 
Ne from thenceforth doth any fleshly sense, 
Or idle thought of earthly things, remaine. 
Spenser, Hymn of Heavenly Beauty. 
Not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we 
have had our conversation in the world, and more abun- 
dantly to you-ward. 2 Cor. 1. 12. 
Abstain tram fleshly lusts. 1 Pet. ii. 11. 
This fleshly lord, he doted on my wife. 
Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, iv. 2. 
3. Animal ; not vegetable. 
'Tis then for nought that mother earth provides 
The stores of all she shows, and all she hides, 
If men with fleshly morsels must be fed, 
And chaw with bloody teeth the breathing bread. 
Dryden. 
flesh-ax (flesh'aks), n. 
A butchers' cleaver. 
all that ttiefleshhook brought up the" 'priest'took'for him- fleshly (flesh'li), adv. [< ME. fleschly ; < flesh 
self - l Sam. ii. is, H. + -ly 2 .] Carnally ; lasciviously. Chaucer. 
2. A hook on which to hang meat. 3. In her., fleshly-minded (flesh'li-min'cled), a. Addict- 
not found; 
flesh-broth (flesh'br6th), n. Broth made by a bearin representing a sTiarp-pointed"hook| ed to'worldjy or sensual pleasure's. 
boiling flesh in water. or more usually three hooks emerging from the -p. ea ( ne jj h Pf*^*^ _.P**i 
flesh-brush (flesh'brush), . A brush designed fl same v 8tem - /a A.ftaxcmete, flesh food, < flaxc, flesh, + mete, 
for rubbing the surface of the body to excite esh-hoop (flesh'hdp), n. In a drum, the hoop food . meat.] Animal food ; the flesh of am- 
nA i: n ~ : :*. i ^i..*.: imoil wnifM t}\t* alrin nfinatitittinrv Iha ltno.1 it, mills DrpllJLIMMl Or lixpll Tor TAnd flisHiKrniulitti) 
action in ii by friction. 
flesh-clogged (flesh'klogd), a. Encumbered 
with flesh. [Rare.] 
flesh-color (flesh'kul'or), n. The normal color 
of the skin of a white person ; pale carnation 
or pinkish: the color of the cheek of a healthy 
white child. 
The term flesh color is more properly rendered skin color, 
since it is evidently intended to indicate the color of 
healthy skin, or the color of muscle as seen through skin. ... v , , ., , ,,. 
O'Xeill, Dyeing and Calico Printing, p. 227. fleshing-knife (flesh'mg-nif), n. Same as flesh- 
knife. 
mals prepared or used for food : distinguished 
from fish. 
fleshiness (flesh'i-nes), . [< fleght/ + -<*.] fleshmentt (flesh ' ment), n. [< flesh, !'., + 
upon which the skin constituting the head is 
stretched. 
. 
The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpu- 
lence ; grossness. 
The bodye where heate and moysture haue souerayntie 
is called sanguine wherin the ayre hath preeminenc 
-ment.] The act of fleshing; excitement from 
a successful attack. 
And, in thefleshment of this dread exploit, 
Drew on me here again. Shak., Lear, ii. 2. 
A 
S.V T. 
Castle of Health i 
When [the skins] come to the last dressing they are 
rinsed and scraped over with tlie fleshing knife. 
C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 300. 
leshings (flesh'ingz), n.pl. [< flesh + -ing 1 .] 
1 . A close-fitting flesh-colored garment or dress ule (1UKe . 
for the whole body or a large part of it, intended you then reported him? 
to represent the natural skin and to give the 
on the stage: as. silk fleshings ; a suit of flesh- 
ings. 
"Now, Mrs. Sleeve, mind and be very particular with 
. *"> " And all the ladies who had assisted at the 
flesh-colored (flesh'kul'ord), a. Of the normal 
color of the skin of a wnite person, 
flesh-crow (flesh'kro), n. The carrion-crow, 
Corvus corone. 
flesher (flesh 'er), n. [Also in Sc. formerly 
fleshour, fleschour (= G. fleischer); < flesh + 
-er 1 . In ME. repr. by flesh-hewere, q. v. Cf. 
flusher.] 1. A butcher. [Chiefly Scotch.] 
Na fleshour sail slay ony Iwast, or sell flesh, in time of 
moot. Sir J. Balfour, Pract. Leg. Burg., p. 72. 
Hard by & flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. 
Macaulay, Virginius. 
2f. An executioner. [Scotch.] 
The pepill had na litill indignacioun that this Marcius 
suld rise sa haistelie to be thair new fleschour and skur- 
geare, or to have ony power of life or deith abone thame. 
Bellenden, tr. of Livy, p. 160. 
3. In leather-manuf., one who fleshes hides. 
4. A tool used to flesh hides. 
The spring pating fleshers measure about seventeen 
inches between the handles. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 309. 
flesh-flea (flesh'fle), m. The chigoe, Sarcopsylla . .. 
penetrans. J. 0. Westwood. flesh-juice (flesh jo's), n. An acid liquid whicli 
flesh-fly (flesh'fll), . [< ME. flescheflie, fleiscn- mav be separated by pressing the flesh of ani- 
flie; < flesh + flyl.] The common name of a a > 8 f ^ higher orders. See flesh. 
group of exclusively carnivorous dipterous in- flesh-knife (flesh'nif), it. In tanning, a blunt- 
___, i^mung"ger),. [<ME.^ 
mongere, < AS. flvescmungere (= MLG. vlesch- 
menger), (flaixe, flesh, + mangere, monger.] 1. 
One who deals in flesh as food. 
The vsttgeolfleshemonrjeresys swych, thateuerychyfr/t*'- 
iiumgere, out of fraunchyse, that haldeth stal, shal [pay] 
to the kynge of custom fyue and twenty pans by the acre. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 364. 
2f. A procurer; a pimp. [Slang.] 
Was the duke a flesh-monijer, a fool, and a coward, as 
Shak., M. forM., v. 1. 
1. 
otl T 
Lsh 
purification of John Gay went to get themselves measured 
for silk flesh-coloured leggings and blue satin slips for a 
piece of mythology. D. Jerrold, Jack Runnymede. 
2. In leather-manuf., the substance scraped 
from hides in the operation of removing the 
flesh from them. 
The fleshings are pressed into cakes, and sold for making 
Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord In 
the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh poti, and when 
we did eat bread to the full. Ex. xvi. 3. 
Hence (in allusion to the passage above quoted) 
2. Food ; also, the indulgence of animal ap- 
petites. 
But we, alas, the Flesh-pots love. 
We love the very Leeks, and sordid Roots below. 
Cowley, Pindaric Odes, xiv. ]. 
3. In her., a bearing representing a three-leg- 
inejiesnmifs are pressed into cakes, and sold for making e d iron not usually though nnr alwnva 
glue, as are all such portions of the hide or skin as cannot : LJ W U8uall - v ' ttlou g h n t always, 
be conveniently worked, ure. Diet. ill. 83. P lc .tea sable. 
fl Ao>in n o trrtl / fl i-.c.Vi 'l^irrn !>. \ i r/ it. .1. _1_ 
fleshquaket (flesh'kwak), n. [< flesh + quake; 
in imitation of earthquake."] A trembling of 
the flesh. 
They may, blood-shaken then, 
Feel such & flesh-quake to possess their powers 
' " ylik 
edged convex knife with two handles used in As they shall cry like ours. B.Jonson, Ode to Himself, 
scraping the hair, loose flesh, etc., from the flesh-red (flesh'red), n. and a. I. . The red 
hides; a flesher. Alsofleshing-knife. 
fleshless (flesh'les), a. [< flesh + -less.'} Desti- 
tute of flesh; wanting in flesh; lean. 
To throw a dart at the fleshless figure of death. 
0. W. Holmes, The Atlantic, LX. 119. 
color of flesh or muscle. 
The S| ti-ulhiii] camelus has the exposed surfaces of the 
head, neck, thighs, and legs of & flesh-red. 
Smithsonian Report (1888), p. 732. 
H. a. Resembling more or less closely the 
red color of flesh or muscle : as, a flesh-red 
Sarracenia Flesh-fly (Sarcofhafa sarracenia). 
a, larva ; *, pupa ; c, fly (lines show natural sizes) ; rf, head and 
prothoracic joints of larva, showing curved hooks, lower lip (more 
enlarged at j?), and prothoracic spiracles ; e, end of body of larva 
showing stigmata (more enlarged at/), prolees, and vent i h, tarsal 
--ectingpaas: i, antenna of fly: all enlarged. 
fleshliness (flesh'li-nes), . [< ME. fleschlynesse, 
carnality, < AS. flcesclicnes, only in sense of in- vanety_ of feldspar, 
carnation, <flcesclic, fleshly: see fleshly, a.} The flesh-spicule (flesh spik'ul), n. In sponges, a 
state of being fleshly ; carnal passions and ap- 8 P lcule t forming part of the supporting skel- 
claws of fly with proted 
sects, the blow-flies, such as those of the genus 
petites. 
Sinne and fleshlines bring forth sectes and heresies. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 81. 
fleshlingt (flesh'ling), w. [< flesh + -ling 1 .] A 
person devoted to carnal things. 
Their entente was to set forthe the justice of God, which 
TI i i ... , e oc, wc 
ihe fly lays her eggs, or living larvae Is to rewarde the spirituall, his electe, with the blessynges 
eton. 
flesh-tint (flesh'tint), n. In painting, etc., a 
color which represents the natural color of the 
human body. 
To infuse into the counterfeit countenance of Miss Nick- 
leby a bright salmon^/i-(!'n< which she [the artist] had 
originally hit upon while executing the miniature of a 
young officer. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, x. 
