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Definition of flesh

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Flesh (v. t.) 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..

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Incarnadine :: Incarnadine (a.) Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color.

Putrid :: Putrid (a.) Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction..

Fleshmonger :: Fleshmonger (n.) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander..

Tabefaction :: Tabefaction (n.) A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.

Calf :: Calf (n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.

Carnassial :: Carnassial (a.) Adapted to eating flesh.

Sucker :: Sucker (n.) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, b

Bitterroot :: Bitterroot (n.) A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet'lum..

Flabby :: Flabby (a.) Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh..

Brachiopoda :: Brachiopoda (n.) A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle..

Hump :: Hump (n.) A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale..

Lip :: Lip (n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself..

Sensual :: Sensual (a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly..

Carnage :: Carnage (n.) Flesh of slain animals or men.

Exocarp :: Exocarp (n.) The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe..

Anthropophagy :: Anthropophagy (n.) The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

Morello :: Morello (n.) A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving..

Giggot :: Giggot (n.) A small piece of flesh; a slice.

Circumcision :: Circumcision (n.) Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith..

Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc..