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flesh

  [flesh]
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–noun
1. the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
2. muscular and fatty tissue.
3. this substance or tissue in animals, viewed as an article of food, usually excluding fish and sometimes fowl; meat.
4. fatness; weight.
5. the body, esp. as distinguished from the spirit or soul: The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
6. the physical or animal nature of humankind as distinguished from its moral or spiritual nature: the needs of the flesh.
7. humankind.
8. living creatures generally.
9. a person's family or relatives.
10. Botany. the soft, pulpy portion of a fruit, vegetable, etc., as distinguished from the core, skin, shell, etc.
11. the surface of the human body; skin: A person with tender flesh should not expose it to direct sunlight.
12. flesh color.
–verb (used with object)
13. to plunge (a weapon) into the flesh.
14. Hunting. to feed (a hound or hawk) with flesh in order to make it more eager for the chase. Compare blood (def. 16).
15. to incite and accustom (persons) to bloodshed or battle by an initial experience.
16. to inflame the ardor or passions of by a foretaste.
17. to overlay or cover (a skeleton or skeletal frame) with flesh or with a fleshlike substance.
18. to give dimension, substance, or reality to (often fol. by out): The playwright fleshed out the characters.
19. to remove adhering flesh from (hides), in leather manufacture.
20. Archaic. to satiate with flesh or fleshly enjoyments; surfeit; glut.
—Idioms
21. in the flesh, present and alive before one's eyes; in person: The movie star looked quite different in the flesh.
22. pound of flesh, something that strict justice demands is due, but can only be paid with great loss or suffering to the payer.
23. press the flesh, Informal. to shake hands, as with voters while campaigning: The senator is busy as ever pressing the flesh on the campaign trail.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME flesc, OE flǣsc; c. OFris flēsk, OHG fleisk (G Fleisch), ON flesk bacon

Related forms:
fleshless, adjective
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Slang Dictionary
press (the) flesh

  1. tv.
    to shake hands. (See also flesh-presser.) : He wanted to press the flesh, but I refused even to touch him.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

flesh 
O.E. flæsc "flesh, meat," also "near kindred" (a sense now obsolete except in phrase flesh and blood), common W. and N.Gmc. (cf. O.Fris. flesk, M.L.G. vlees, Ger. Fleisch "flesh," O.N. flesk "pork, bacon"), of unknown origin, perhaps from P.Gmc. *flaiskoz-. Figurative use for "animal or physical nature of man" (O.E.), is from the Bible, especially Paul's use of Gk. sarx, which yielded sense of "sensual appetites" (c.1200). Fleshpot is lit. "pot in which flesh is boiled," hence "luxuries regarded with envy," especially in fleshpots of Egypt, from Exodus xvi.3:
"Whan we sat by ye Flesh pottes, and had bred ynough to eate." [Coverdale translation, 1535]
Flesh-wound is from 1674; flesh-color, the hue of "Caucasian" skin, is first recorded 1611, described as a tint composed of "a light pink with a little yellow" [O'Neill, "Dyeing," 1862]. Fleshy "plump" is from c.1369. An O.E. poetry-word for "body" was flæsc-hama, lit. "flesh-home."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: flesh
Pronunciation: 'flesh
Function: noun
: the soft parts of the body of an animal and especially of a vertebrate; especially : the parts composed chiefly of skeletal muscle as distinguished from visceral structures, bone, and integuments —see GOOSEBUMPS, PROUD FLESH —fleshed /'flesht/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

flesh (flěsh)
n.
The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate, covering the bones and consisting mainly of skeletal muscle and fat.

flesh'y adj.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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