(n.) The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
(n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
(n.) The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
(n.) The human eace; mankind; humanity.
(n.) Human nature
(n.) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
(n.) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
(n.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
(n.) Kindred; stock; race.
(n.) The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
(v. t.) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
(2) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(3) 100 degrees C. Thus residues did not migrate into the flesh of the tubers.
(4) Experiments were conducted comparing the relative contribution of internal and external cold stimuli in the initiation of horripilation (cutis anserina or "goose flesh") in men and women.
(5) Cutaneous macroglobulinosis is characterized by multiple flesh-colored papules on extensor skin surfaces.
(6) A stimulating effect of chondroitinsulphate to regeneration of flesh wound in case of local single action didn't differ essentially from the effect of chonsuride.
(7) The cystic stages which occur in the flesh of herbivores are probably non-pathogenic but the earlier stages in which schizonts develop in vascular endothelium may be severely pathogenic.
(8) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
(9) The approach is illustrated by several examples of previously unknown correspondences with important biological implications: Drosophila elongation factor Tu is shown to be encoded by two genes that are differently expressed during development; a cluster of three Drosophila genes likely encode maltases; a flesh-fly fat body protein resembles the hypothesized Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase ancestral protein; an unknown protein encoded at the multifunctional E. coli hisT locus resembles aspartate beta-semialdehyde dehydrogenase; and the E. coli tyrR protein is related to nitrogen regulatory proteins.
(10) Erik Erikson used the film character of Dr. Borg from Wild Strawberries to flesh out his life cycle conception of ego integrity versus despair in old age.
(11) If it was a bigger explosion, hundreds could have died.” “When I got there there was flesh scattered at the scene, chaos, destruction, broken glass, broken balconies,” he added.
(12) Supporters said they were not surprised she had been let go as she had become “a thorn in the flesh” of the DfE after speaking out against government policies.
(13) The audience just want the thrill of seeing celebrity in the flesh.
(14) I mean, he's hooked us up to see you in the flesh – it feels a bit like Madame Tussauds right now!"
(15) We performed the primary operation on the flesh-colored tumor, which had surface telangiectasia.
(16) The idea of tattooing your flesh with the southern cross was, well, strange.
(17) Typically, people get honours for their charity work, and I've never even agreed with that, since it tends to mean donations, which tend to proceed from wealth, and all it does is lock down and make flesh the fallacy that rich people are more honourable than everyone else.
(18) In that same 2010 fundraiser speech, Perry described his mission as "bigger than any law or policy," of being engaged in a struggle not of "flesh and blood," but "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
(19) There are four or five areas that have been highlighted by the BBC Trust that require more fleshing out."
(20) We have used endonuclease treatment in situ, followed by Giemsa or ethidium bromide staining, for mapping repetitive sequences on the chromosomes of the flesh fly Sarcophaga bullata and thus for studying extrachromosomal DNA granules in this species.
Fleshy
Definition:
(superl.) Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.
(superl.) Human.
(superl.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sarcomas (fleshy tumors) were distinguished from carcinoma (crab leg tumors) at the time of Hippocrates.
(2) And when nothing seems off-limits online – not to mention the intimate moments of any celebrity under the sun, or the private photos Jennifer Lawrence makes for her lover’s eyes only – does the proper fleshy privacy of sex with a partner lose its glamour?
(3) Your knees creak, your back aches and your fleshy bits droop more than they used to.
(4) Exposing one's fleshy bits to the gentle caress of the solar furnace has always boasted some distinguished advocates.
(5) One of the most pleasing things in recent years is that it has become easier for us in Britain to get hold of luscious, fleshy Medjool dates.
(6) Analyses of various parts of carpophores of B. edulis, Suillus luteus and Amanita muscaria indicate that in all three species the stalk contains less selenium than the fleshy part of the cap.
(7) His take on spaghetti carbonara is just as playful, the pasta replaced with crunchy strings of palmito , white fleshy palm hearts, a classic Brazilian ingredient.
(8) Three types of trabecula septomarginalis were encountered as previously described by Bortolami in ox: - Mostly (66%), the trabecula septomarginalis is a short and thick fleshy column.
(9) Three patients had passed fleshy material in the urine while in one the diagnosis was established by excretory urography.
(10) And fleshy, human, and deeply subjective stuff it is too.
(11) The consistent features include a fleshy web extending across the anterior aspect of the cubital fossa, absence of the long head of the triceps, limitation of full elbow extension and missing skin creases over the terminal inter-phalangeal joints of the fingers.
(12) M. pterygoideus ventralis lateralis has a well developed 'venter externus' slip which has its thick and fleshy insertion on the outer lateral angular and articular mandible.
(13) On the rare occasions we manage to catch up with him, we find ourselves peering into the sort of face you usually find on banknotes: brisk moustache, chin like a fleshy landslide, eyes so piercing they could blow up the east courtyard's unfinished multi-million-pound toilet block.
(14) The fleshy insertion of the outer slip of M. pseudotemporalis profundus extends ventrally over the dorsolateral surface of the mandible much more than it does in Columba.
(15) A 50-year-old woman had a fleshy lesion in her right buccal maxillary sulcus.
(16) A family is reported in which the mother and 4 of her 6 children are affected by a constellation of abnormalities including mental handicap, abnormal facies, short stature, soft fleshy hands with tapering fingers and skeletal abnormalities.
(17) The amount of S(eq) in the latter products as well as in fruits packed in unsweetened juice equalled that of the fleshy substance of ordinary sucrose-sweetened products.
(18) Therefore, the present study is restricted only to the fleshy leaf extracts [Jindal et al.
(19) This is particularly true of benthic species which conceal themselves by flattened form, fleshy protuberances or protective coloration, or which bury in the sediment or take refuge in burrows.
(20) The deep part arises by large fleshy laminae from the deep surface of the erector spinae aponeurosis.