flesh

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

   “The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.”

2. isim The skin of a human or animal.
3. isim Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
4. isim Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).

   “Chicken is already the most popular meat in the US, and is projected to be the planet’s favourite flesh by 2020.”

5. isim The human body as a physical entity.

   “And the preaſt ſhall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his fleſh, and take awaye the aſſhes whiche the fire of the burntſacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them beſyde the alter, […]”

6. isim The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.

   “For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man as the flowre of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flowre thereof falleth away.”

7. isim The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
8. isim The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.

   “The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.”

9. isim Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

   “There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.”

10. isim Kindred; stock; race.

    “He is our brother and our flesh.”

11. isim A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.

    “She opened [...] a third that was the peachy white that crayon companies used to call “flesh”.”

12. fiil To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.

    “Before they had fleshed the hounds, however, he recollected himself […].”

13. fiil To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

    “Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.”

14. fiil To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.

    “And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.”

15. fiil To glut.
16. fiil To put flesh on; to fatten.
17. fiil To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.