Crossword clues for flesh
flesh
- Bone partner
- Spirit's antithesis
- Skeleton's lack
- It may be peddled
- Edible part of fruit
- Edible part of a peach
- Butler's "The Way of All ___"
- Bone cover
- Body tissue
- "____ & Blood"
- What ghosts lack
- What candidates "press" a lot of
- What candidates "press"
- Skin mag's depiction
- Shylock's pound
- Pulpy part of a peach
- Peach's pulpy portion
- Partner of blood, on occasion
- Partner of blood
- Old name for the Crayola color Peach
- Muscular tissue
- It's pressed on the campaign trail, with "the"
- Insensitive bygone Crayola color
- In the __ (live)
- In person, in the ...
- Elaborate, with "out"
- Crayola color renamed Peach
- Crayola color renamed "peach" in 1962
- Crayola color renamed "peach"
- Bones cover
- Bone's cover
- Blood relative?
- Blood brother?
- Billy Idol "___ for Fantasy"
- Amplify, with "out"
- "The Way of All ___"
- "It's just a ___ wound!"
- "___ for Fantasy" (Billy Idol hit)
- ______erton, Ontario
- ____ and blood
- ___ and blood (direct relatives)
- ___ and blood
- __ and blood (relatives)
- Butler's "The Way of All _____"
- Bygone Crayola shade
- Former Crayola color
- Relatives
- Skinemax showing
- Blood's partner
- Crayola color changed to "peach"
- Zombie's craving
- Add details to, with "out"
- Describe in greater detail, with "out"
- Alternative names for the body of a human being
- A soft moist part of a fruit
- The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate mainly muscle tissue and fat
- "The Way of All ___": Butler
- Meat on one's bones?
- Nylons shade
- Pound sought by Shylock
- Carnal subject
- "___ and Fantasy," 1943 film
- Fatten
- "O, that this too too solid ___ . . . ": Shak.
- Meat that could come from shelf
- What's revealed in cabaret in Raffles Hotel?
- Kind of wound attributed to rifle shots
- Soft muscular tissue
- This writer's neglected himself, running up fat
- It's got you covered
- Vegetarian's no-no
- Peach part
- Hosiery color
- Blood partner?
- Fruit pulp
- Bones' partner
- Soft tissue
- In the ___ (not virtual)
- Apple component
- __ and blood (kin)
- Cheesecake feature
- Type of wound
- Edible part of a fruit
- Crayola color renamed Peach in 1962
- Bygone Crayola color
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flesh \Flesh\ (fl[e^]sh), n. [OE. flesch, flesc, AS. fl[=ae]sc; akin to OFries. fl[=a]sk, D. vleesch, OS. fl[=e]sk, OHG. fleisc, G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard, bacon, pork, Sw. fl["a]sk.]
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The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
Note: In composition it is mainly proteinaceous, but contains in adition a large number of low-molecular-weight subtances, such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin, carnin, etc. It is also rich in potassium phosphate.
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Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.
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The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable.
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The human eace; mankind; humanity.
All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
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Human nature:
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In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
--Cowper. In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
(Theol.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
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Kindred; stock; race.
He is our brother and our flesh.
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7. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
Note: Flesh is often used adjectively or self-explaining compounds; as, flesh broth or flesh-broth; flesh brush or fleshbrush; flesh tint or flesh-tint; flesh wound.
After the flesh, after the manner of man; in a gross or earthly manner. ``Ye judge after the flesh.''
--John viii. 15.An arm of flesh, human strength or aid.
Flesh and blood. See under Blood.
Flesh broth, broth made by boiling flesh in water.
Flesh fly (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of flies whose larv[ae] or maggots feed upon flesh, as the bluebottle fly; -- called also meat fly, carrion fly, and blowfly. See Blowly.
Flesh meat, animal food.
--Swift.Flesh side, the side of a skin or hide which was next to the flesh; -- opposed to grain side.
Flesh tint (Painting), a color used in painting to imitate the hue of the living body.
Flesh worm (Zo["o]l.), any insect larva of a flesh fly. See Flesh fly (above).
Proud flesh. See under Proud.
To be one flesh, to be closely united as in marriage; to become as one person.
--Gen. ii. 24.
Flesh \Flesh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fleshed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleshing.]
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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.
Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword.
--Shak.The wild dog Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.
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To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom. ``Fleshed in triumphs.''
--Glanvill.Old soldiers Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France.
--Beau. & Fl. (Leather Manufacture) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "to render (a hunting animal) eager for prey by rewarding it with flesh from a kill," with figurative extensions, from flesh (n.). Meaning "to clothe or embody with flesh," with figurative extensions, is from 1660s. Related: Fleshed; fleshing.
Old English flæsc "flesh, meat, muscular parts of animal bodies; body (as opposed to soul)," also "living creatures," also "near kindred" (a sense now obsolete except in phrase flesh and blood), common West and North Germanic (compare Old Frisian flesk, Middle Low German vlees, German Fleisch "flesh," Old Norse flesk "pork, bacon"), which is of uncertain origin; according to Watkins, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *flaiskjan "piece of meat torn off," from PIE *pleik- "to tear."\n
\nOf fruits from 1570s. Figurative use for "carnal nature, animal or physical nature of man" (Old English) is from the Bible, especially Paul's use of Greek sarx, and this led to sense of "sensual appetites" (c.1200).\n
\nFlesh-wound is from 1670s; flesh-color, the hue of "Caucasian" skin, is first recorded 1610s, described as a tint composed of "a light pink with a little yellow" [O'Neill, "Dyeing," 1862]. In the flesh "in a bodily form" (1650s) originally was of Jesus (Wyclif has up the flesh, Tindale after the flesh). An Old English poetry-word for "body" was flæsc-hama, literally "flesh-home." A religious tract from 1548 has fleshling "a sensual person." Flesh-company (1520s) was an old term for "sexual intercourse."
Wiktionary
n. 1 The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat. 2 The skin of a human or animal. 3 (context by extension English) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso. 4 (context archaic English) animal tissue regarded as food; meat. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh. 2 (context obsolete English) To inure or habituate someone (term: in) or (term: to) a given practice. (16th-18th c.) 3 To put flesh on; to fatten. 4 To add details. 5 To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
WordNet
n. the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [syn: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form]
a soft moist part of a fruit [syn: pulp]
Wikipedia
Flesh is the soft substance of the body of a living thing. In a human or other animal body, this consists of muscle and fat; for vertebrates, this especially includes muscle tissue ( skeletal muscle), as opposed to bones and viscera. Animal flesh, as food, is called meat. In plants, "flesh" is the tissue of the plant.
Flesh is a recurring story in the weekly anthology comic 2000AD created by writer Pat Mills.
Flesh is an American science fiction novel written by Philip José Farmer. Originally released in 1960, it was Farmer's second novel-length publication, after The Green Odyssey. Flesh features many sexual themes, as is typical of Farmer's earliest work.
Flesh (alternate title: Andy Warhol's Flesh) is a 1968 film directed by American filmmaker Paul Morrissey.
Flesh is the first film of the "Paul Morrissey Trilogy" produced by Andy Warhol. The other films in the trilogy include Trash and Heat. All three have gained a cult following and are noted examples of the ideals and ideology of the time period.
The film stars Joe Dallesandro as a hustler working on the streets of New York City. The movie highlights various Warhol superstars, in addition to being the film debuts of both Jackie Curtis and Candy Darling. Also appearing are Geraldine Smith as Joe's wife and Patti D'Arbanville as her lover.
Flesh is the second studio album by David Gray, initially released in September 1994, and re-released along with Gray's debut album A Century Ends on July 2, 2001. In the United States, the album featured a photo of a storefront's window display as its album cover.
Flesh is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film starring Wallace Beery as a German wrestler. Some of the script was written by Moss Hart and an uncredited William Faulkner, and the film was co-produced and directed by John Ford, who removed his director's credit from the picture.
In the Bible, the word "flesh" is often used simply as a description of the fleshy parts of an animal, including that of human beings, and typically in reference to dietary laws and sacrifice. Less often it is used as a metaphor for familial or kinship relations, and (particularly in the Christian tradition) as a metaphor to describe sinful tendencies. A related turn of phrase identifies certain sins as "carnal" sins, from Latin caro, carnis, meaning "flesh."
Usage examples of "flesh".
We have evolved to expect, and in some cases actually need, the tiny amounts of rare elements that accumulate in the flesh or fiber that we eat.
The creation of Eve out of the side of Adam was either meant by the author as an allegoric illustration that the love of husband and wife is the most powerful of social bonds, or as a pure myth seeking to explain the incomparable cleaving together of husband and wife by the entirely poetic supposition that the first woman was taken out of the first man, bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh.
The history of his people, though he believed in it literally, was in its main points a didactic allegoric poem for enabling him to inculcate the doctrine that man attains the vision of God by mortification of the flesh.
Dislike him she might, but he had the power to remind her that she was still human, still a woman of warm flesh and blood, and not as immune to the physical allure of the opposite sex as she thought she was--as she wanted to be.
Syracuse was delivered by the Greeks, the apostate was slain before her walls, and his African friends were reduced to the necessity of feeding on the flesh of their own horses.
The dry heat of his flesh against hers had her hips arching in desperation.
She screamed, feeling the hard jets of his semen as she climaxed around his flesh, her hips arching, her clit erupting in pleasure, lava thundered through her veins, bubbling with the fierce ecstasy as she pulsed around him, milking his cock, soaking his flesh.
They appeal to us not religiously, not historically, not intellectually, but sensuously and artistically through their rhythmic lines, their palpitating flesh, their beauty of color, and in the light and atmosphere that surround them.
The intricate vegetarian cuisines of Japan, China, and India should make it obvious that when you eliminate most of the possibilities that nature offersall animal flesh, plus eggs and milk and nearly everything else that is white, including onions and garlicyou must show greater artistry in the kitchen rather than less.
Again, it was reasonable to mention flesh, which, as being farther away from the Word, was less assumable, as it would seem.
For the flesh would not have been assumable, except by its relation to the rational soul, through which it becomes human flesh.
The human flesh is assumable by the Word on account of the order which it has to the rational soul as to its proper form.
Therefore the Word of God is united to flesh by means of the Holy Spirit, and hence by means of grace, which is attributed to the Holy Spirit, according to 1 Cor.
The Gnostics agreed in attributing evil to matter, and made the means of redemption to consist in fastings and scourgings of the flesh, with denial of all its cravings, and in lofty spiritual contemplations.
Pitch mentioned their intended length of stay upon Azul Island, Tom laughed harder than before, and his chair creaked as though in resentment of the heavy pounds of flesh and bone that made up this man.