Meaning of flesh | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
   uncountable, usually
2. flesh, the soft part of a body which covers the bones
3. To become plump or fleshy; gain weight.
4. The skin of a human or animal.
   uncountable, usually
5. an animal’s meat, or by extension the edible “fleshy” or soft part of a fruit or vegetable
6. the eating of human flesh generally not for nutritional purposes but for primitive sacramental rites. — cannibalic, cannibalistic, adj.
7. Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
   broadly, uncountable, usually
8. the use of flesh meat for sustenance. — creophagous, adj.
9. Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
   uncountable, usually
10. Rare. the eating of raw meat, especially as part of an initiation ritual. — omophagic, adj.
11. The human body as a physical entity.
    uncountable, usually
12. Rare. the act, practice, or custom of eating flesh. — sarcophagous, adj.
13. The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
    uncountable, usually
14. The human race:earth, Homo sapiens, humanity, humankind, man, mankind, universe, world.
15. The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
    uncountable, usually
16. fat. a fleshy face. vlesig لَحْمي، بَدين топчест carnudo masitý, otylý fleischig, feist buttet: kraftig; tyk σαρκώδηςgordo; carnoso lihav گوشتالو pulska charnuבשרני मांसल, गूदेदार puten, debeljuškast húsos gemuk holdugur, feitur carnoso, in carne 肉づきのよい 살찐 mėsingas, storas gaļīgs; tukls gemuk vlezigkjøttfull mięsisty غوښن، مزى، تيار، څورب carnudo gras мясистый mäsitý mesnat mesnat köttig, fet เจ้าเนื้อ dolgun, tombul 肥胖的 товстий, огрядний گودے دار núng nính thịt; béo 肥胖的
17. The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
    uncountable, usually
18. actually present; in person. I have seen him on television, but never in the flesh. in lewende lywe بِلَحْمِهِ وشَحْمِهِ، شَخْصيا лично em carne e osso osobně leibhaftig i levende live; i egen person αυτοπροσώπως, με σάρκα και οστά en persona, en carne y hueso tegelikkuses از نزدیک؛ شخصاً ilmielävänä en chair et en os בְּעַצמוֹ वास्तविक जीवन में uživo életnagyságban secara langsung í eigin persónu in carne e ossa, di persona 実物で 직접, 실물로 gyvas, gyvenime dzīvā veidolā secara langsung in levende...
19. Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
    obsolete, uncountable, usually
20. carne, tejido muscular suave del cuerpo;___ wound → herida superficial.
21. Kindred; stock; race.
    obsolete, uncountable, usually
22. The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate, covering the bones and consisting mainly of skeletal muscle and fat: thought the boy needed some more flesh on his bones.
23. A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.
    uncountable, usually

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Examples

“The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.”

“Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as ye be in the quest of the sancgreal / nor ye shalle drynke noo wyne / and that ye here masse dayly and ye may doo hit”

“The fleſh that twycheth any vnclene thinge ſhall not be eaten. but burnt with fire: and all that be clene in their fleſh, maye eate fleſh. Yf any ſoule eate of the fleſh of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclenneſſe yet apon him, the ſame ſoule ſhall periſſhe from amonge his peoole.^([sic]) Moreouer yf a ſoule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclenneſſe of man or of any vnclene beeſt or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ãd thẽ eate of the fleſh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that ſoule ſhall periſſh from his people.”

“Chicken is already the most popular meat in the US, and is projected to be the planet’s favourite flesh by 2020.”

“And the preaſt ſhall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his fleſh, and take awaye the aſſhes whiche the fire of the burntſacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them beſyde the alter, […]”

“In my political/cultural mythology Carl remained this larger-than-life figure […] But knowing Carl, the fantasy made flesh, was a different experience. The keen mind that wrote "A Gay Manifesto" was even more perceptive and challenging in real life.”

“For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man as the flowre of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flowre thereof falleth away.”

“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that yee cannot doe the things that yee would.”

“1929 January, Bassett Morgan (Grace Jones), Bimini, first published in Weird Tales, reprinted 1949, in Avon Fantasy Reader, Issue 10, But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh.”

“The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.”

“There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.”

“He is our brother and our flesh.”

“She opened [...] a third that was the peachy white that crayon companies used to call “flesh”.”

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