Word Meanings - FLESH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

vleesch, OS. fl, OHG. fleisc, G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard, 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

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vleesch, OS. fl, OHG. fleisc, G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard, 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 albuminous, but contains in adition a large number of crystalline bodies, such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin, carnin, etc. It is also rich in phosphate of potash. 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: 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. 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. 27. 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.

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• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• COMPOSITION
  The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment. Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• RECOMPOSITION
  The act of recomposing.
• DISCOMPOSITION
  Inconsistency; discordance. Donne.