The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fleshless \Flesh"less\, a.
Destitute of flesh; lean.
--Carlyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from flesh (n.) + -less.
Wiktionary
a. Without flesh, lacking flesh.
Usage examples of "fleshless".
The yellow light flickered over the shrivelled features of the mummies, and gleamed upon rounded skulls and long, white armbones crossed over fleshless chests.
There waited at the doorway of the king One grim and ghastly, shadowy, horrible, Bearing the likeness of a king himself, Erect as one who serveth not,--upon His head a crown, within his fleshless hands A sceptre,--monstrous, winged, intolerable.
Sharindala trembled all over, and for a long time blue-gray eyes and dark points of light in the sockets of a fleshless skull stared into each other.
The scavengers had done their work well: The body looked as if it had exploded, with limbs and ribs lying scattered on the ground, bloody bone gleaming, and an eyeless, fleshless head peering back at him accusingly, spadelike tusks lying broken and gnawed.
The calcimine grins of fleshless skulls, the poison-wet grins of serpents, the leer of Lugosi in Dracula's cape-all paled by comparison with this grotesque configuration of bloodless lips and muddy teeth.
When Death's Heads on our Hands have no influence upon our Heads, and fleshless Cadavers abate not the exorbitances of the Flesh.
Imbedded in the wall was a huge iron ring, and chained to it was a gaunt skeleton, that was stretched out at full length on the stone floor, and seemed to be trying to grasp with its long fleshless fingers an old-fashioned trencher and ewer, that were placed just out of its reach.
Despite its fleshless inanimation, Dan felt a shiver of apprehension as he beheld the piece of bone.
To Mhoram's cold dread, he looked like the incarnated fate of all Covenant's victims-a fleshless future crouched in ambush for the Land.
To Mhoram’s cold dread, he looked like the incarnated fate of all Covenant’s victims-a fleshless future crouched in ambush for the Land.
A vast sigh shuddered through the air and quaked into absolute silence, as William walked to meet his father, bowed above the extended hand, and kissed the fleshless cheek.
Charlie was leaning against a tumbled wall, suckered tongue darting out to moisten his fleshless lips.