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Word Meanings - UNFLESH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton. "Unfleshed humanity." Wordsworth.

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  • DEPRIVEMENT
    Deprivation.
  • REDUCEMENT
    Reduction. Milton.
  • FLESHMENT
    The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
  • SKELETON
    The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. Note: The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal. Note: In a wider sense, the skeleton includes the whole connective-
  • REDUCE
    To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
  • FLESHHOOD
    The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
  • HUMANITY
    The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ
  • 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.
  • DEPRIVER
    One who, or that which, deprives.
  • REDUCER
    One who, or that which, reduces.
  • FLESHLING
    A person devoted to fleshly things. Spenser.
  • UNFLESHLY
    Not pertaining to the flesh; spiritual.
  • 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.
  • UNFLESH
    To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton. "Unfleshed humanity." Wordsworth.
  • SKELETONIZER
    Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
  • DEPRIVE
    1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
  • INHUMANITY
    The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
  • SCLEROSKELETON
    That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
  • 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
  • DERMOSKELETON
    See EXOSKELETON
  • ENFLESH
    To clothe with flesh. Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.
  • INFLESH
    To incarnate.

 

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