What is "flesh and blood"

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.]

1. 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.

2. 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.
   --Chaucer.

3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.

   As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable.
   --Shak.

4. The human eace; mankind; humanity.

   All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
   --Gen. vi. 12.

5. Human nature:

   1. In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

      There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
      --Cowper.

   2. In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

   3. (Theol.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.

6. Kindred; stock; race.

   He is our brother and our flesh.
   --Gen. xxxvii. 2

7. 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.

Blood \Blood\ (bl[u^]d), n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl[=o]d; akin to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. bl[=o][thorn], Icel. bl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E. blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom.]

1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

   Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma.

2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.

   To share the blood of Saxon royalty.
   --Sir W. Scott.

   A friend of our own blood.
   --Waller.

   Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent.

   Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood.
   --Bouvier.
   --Peters.

3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.

   Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam.
   --Shak.

   I am a gentleman of blood and breeding.
   --Shak.

4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.

   Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood.

5. The fleshy nature of man.

   Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood.
   --Shak.

6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.

   So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones.
   --Hood.

7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.]

   He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries.
   --Shak.

8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.

   When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
   --Shak.

   Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up.

9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.

   Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
   --Shak.

   It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
   --Thackeray.

10. The juice of anything, especially if red.

    He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
    --Gen. xiix.

11. Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won. Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism. Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury. Blood brother, brother by blood or birth. Blood clam (Zo["o]l.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh. Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle. Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the h[ae]moglobin of the red blood corpuscles; h[ae]matocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals. Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 981/2 [deg] Fahr. Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock. Blood money. See in the Vocabulary. Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp. Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; tox[ae]mia. Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials. Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent. Blood spavin. See under Spavin. Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary. Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family. Flesh and blood.

    1. A blood relation, esp. a child.

    2. Human nature.

       In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor.
       --Shak.

       To let blood. See under Let.

       Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal.

a. 1 real; substantial. 2 Consisting of flesh, blood, and other substances associated with animals or humans. n. 1 One's relatives or relations. 2 human nature.

Flesh and Blood (stylized as Flesh+Blood) is a 1985 American- Dutch- Spanish dramatic adventure film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson and Jack Thompson. The script was written by Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman. The story is set in the year 1501 in Italy, during the passing of the Late Middle Ages to the Early modern period, and follows two warring groups of mercenaries and their longstanding quarrel.

The script is partly based on unused material for the Dutch TV series Floris, which was the début for Verhoeven, Soeteman and Hauer. The film, originally titled God's Own Butchers, was also known as The Rose and the Sword on early VHS releases. It was Verhoeven's first English language film.

Flesh + Blood is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Roxy Music. Released in late May 1980, it was an immediate commercial success peaking at No. 1 in the UK for one week in June and then returned to the summit in August for another three weeks, in total spending 60 weeks on the albums chart in the United Kingdom. The album also peaked at No. 35 in the United States and No. 10 in Australia.

The album was preceded by the single " Over You", a No. 5 UK hit that also provided the band with a rare US chart entry at No. 80. Two more hit singles followed: " Oh Yeah" (UK #5) and " Same Old Scene" (UK No. 12, AUS #35). Flesh + Blood also included two cover versions: The Byrds' " Eight Miles High" and Wilson Pickett's " In the Midnight Hour". The latter was released as a single in some territories. In addition, the album's title track along with the aforementioned "Over You" and "Eight Miles High" peaked at number forty-six on the Billboard dance charts.

The album was made after their drummer Paul Thompson had left the band, essentially making Roxy Music a three-piece band consisting of Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera.

Flesh and Blood is a mystery novel by Jonathan Kellerman

"Flesh and Blood" is a two-part episode from the seventh season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager.

Flesh and Blood is the fifth full-length album by hardcore punk band No Innocent Victim. It was released in 1999 on Victory Records.

Flesh and Blood is a 1922 film starring Lon Chaney and directed by Irving Cummings. The film originally had a segment with Chinese players in color.

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Flesh and Blood is the fourth solo album by Mike Peters.

"Flesh and Blood" is a 1970 single written and recorded by Johnny Cash and was featured in the film, I Walk the Line starring Gregory Peck (see: soundtrack album I Walk the Line). The song describes a man observing and interacting with nature, but noting that it is no substitute for a human partner; "flesh and blood needs flesh and blood." "Flesh and Blood" went to number one on the U.S. country singles chart for one week, spending a total of thirteen weeks on the chart.

Flesh and Blood is a 1951 British film with Richard Todd in a dual role.

Flesh and Blood is a 1968 television film directed by Arthur Penn from an original teleplay by William Hanley. The film aired 26 January 1968 on NBC.