To feed full with flesh, and hence with fleshly enjoyments, spoil, etc.
To encourage by giving flesh to; initiate to the taste of flesh: with reference to the practice 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 carnage.
In leather manufacturing, to remove flesh, fat, and loose membrane from the flesh side of, as skins and hides.
To clothe with flesh; make fleshy.
To become more fleshy, as one who has been ill and is convalescent: used with up.
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A substance forming a large part of an animal body, consisting of the softer solids which constitute muscle and fat, as distinguished from the bones, the skin, the membranes, and the fluids; in the most restricted sense, muscular tissue alone.
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Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; in the most restricted sense, the substance of beasts and fowls used as food, as distinguished from fish.
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The body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
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Man, or the human race; mankind; humanity.
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Man's animal or physical nature, as distinguished from or opposed to his moral or spiritual nature; the body as the seat of appetite: a Biblical use: as, to mortify the flesh.
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Kindred; stock; family; near relative or relatives.
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In botany, the soft cellular or pulpy substance of a fruit or vegetable, as distinguished from the kernel or core, skin, shell, etc.
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In Scripture, to be under the control of the animal nature: opposed to spiritual.
Consisting of animal substance not fish: as, a flesh diet.