Word Meanings - MORBIDEZZA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.

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• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• FLESHHOOD
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
• SOFTNESS
  The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to Ant: hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.
• FLESHINESS
  The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.
• FLESHER
  1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
• FLESHLY
  1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton.
• FLESHLESS
  Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• FLESHLING
  A person devoted to fleshly things. Spenser.
• FLESHMONGER
  One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. Shak.
• FLESHED
  1. Corpulent; fat; having flesh. 2. Glutted; satiated; initiated. Fleshed with slaughter. Dryden.
• DELICACY
  1. The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like. What choice to choose for delicacy best. Milton. 2. Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution;
• REPRESENTATION
  1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. 2. That which represents. Specifically: A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical
• FLESHLINESS
  The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites. Spenser.
• FLESHINGS
  Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. D. Jerrold.
• FLESHQUAKE
  A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. B. Jonson.
• FLESHPOT
  A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked; hence ,
• FLESH
  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
• FLESHY
  Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants. (more info) 1. Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross. The sole of his foot is fleshy. Ray. 2. Human. "Fleshy tabernacle." Milton.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• ENFLESH
  To clothe with flesh. Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.
• INFLESH
  To incarnate.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• UNFLESHLY
  Not pertaining to the flesh; spiritual.
• UNFLESH
  To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton. "Unfleshed humanity." Wordsworth.
• INDELICACY
  The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind.