Crossword clues for fleshed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Fleshed \Fleshed\, a.
Corpulent; fat; having flesh.
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Glutted; satiated; initiated.
Fleshed with slaughter.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having flesh; corpulent 2 (''in combination'') Having a specified form of flesh or body
WordNet
Usage examples of "fleshed".
Then the smoke that had poured forth so long diminished, and those below shouted by the gosport that all the tar was consumed, and the young man fleshed from dreams ordered that firing cease, and the men who had worked the guns fell upon the deck like so many corpses, too exhausted even to beg water.
In that time the skeletal apparition he had introduced on 17 May had fully fleshed out, with ample pink-nippled breasts, well padded hips and smooth thighs.
Keir grabbed the aiglets and held them tight until they fleshed out into hands once again.
The sole inhabitant contemplates his largely substantial full fleshed face and figure in a glass.
If, with all the aids of art, these slight differences make a great difference in cultivating the several varieties, assuredly, in a state of nature, where the trees would have to struggle with other trees and with a host of enemies, such differences would effectually settle which variety, whether a smooth or downy, a yellow or purple fleshed fruit, should succeed.
The fat had fleshed out her body, giving her swollen breasts, buttocks, and thighs, a much more human shape than the pithecines' chimplike slackness.
The mightiest of the berserks, his big face contorted by a fighting fury that would never fade till sheer exhaustion forced it, had just slashed off the bonily pink, invisibly fleshed head of Lithquil's assassin.
Now he fleshed out the profiles he had been storing in his databanks and started recruiting a six member political team.
Many were weedy, with light bones and high haunches, rather thin, necked and far too gaunt to bear any resemblance to the sturdily conformed, rugged, firm, fleshed beasts that had been the pride of Ruatha Hold.
Unclearly at first, but fleshed out in greater detail as memory returned.
Her belly was well swollen, and the rest of her body had fleshed out somewhat to match.
I HAVE WITHIN ME A SKELETON, A SHADOW THAT IS FLESHED OUT ONLY WHEN WE ARE IN DIRECT COMMUNICATION.
Stories of how she teased Breeding Mistresses (especially Bell) and elaborately detailed accounts of seductions fleshed out with Honored Matre comparisons from Murbella spiced more than the food.
The rough idea of what he must do was there, still not fleshed out, but it held out hope.
Then the idea of swindling the city fathers of Teocinte came up, and the entire plan was fleshed out in minutes.