Word Finder - flesh

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

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The skin of a human or animal.

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(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.

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Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).

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The human body as a physical entity.

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

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The evil and corrupting principle working in man.

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The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.

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Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

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Kindred; stock; race.

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A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.

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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.

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

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

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To glut.

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To put flesh on; to fatten.

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To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

I am made of flesh and blood and bone, am I not?

Opening her eyes, she raised the axe and let it fall, grimacing at the sounds of flesh splitting.

Its flesh is likewise much esteemed.

In both cases the socalled fruit is composed of the receptacle or upper end of the flower-stalk (the so-called calyx tube) greatly dilated, and enclosing within its cellular flesh the five cartilaginous carpels which constitute the "core" and are really the true fruit.

She stepped through masses of flesh and body parts, holding her mouth, until she

Large flocks of sheep are kept, both for their flesh and their wool, and there are in the province large numbers of horned cattle and of pigs, Geese and goose feathers form lucrative articles of export.

He has won the race, and won it fairly; but what can a horse of flesh do against a tireless beast of wood?

All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic.

The Sicarii or Zealots who had appealed to the arm of flesh were exterminated.

The flesh is eaten in Brazil.

Real horses, like myself, are made of flesh and blood and bones.

His hearers expected a story of how beside himself and all aflame with excitement, he had flown like a storm at the square, cut his way in, slashed right and left, how his saber had tasted flesh and he had fallen exhausted, and so on.

So vividly did he recall that hospital stench of dead flesh that he looked round to see where the smell came from.

It is very common on the coasts of Europe and eastern North America, but its flesh is much less esteemed than that of the true Gadi.

It is equally impossible to give a general survey of the purposes of sacrifice; not only are they too numerous but it is rare to find any but mixed forms; the scapegoat, for example, is also a messenger to the dead, and its flesh is eaten by the sacrificers.

Being thus composed, he is neither able to eat flesh like his father, nor herbs like his mother; therefore he perisheth from inanition"; the moral follows.

They believed in the existence of two gods, a good (whose son was Christ) and an evil (whose son was Satan); matter is the creation of the evil principle, and therefore essentially evil, and the greatest of all sins is sexual intercourse, even in marriage; sinful also is the possession of material goods, and the eating of flesh meat, and many other things.

In the interior of the grape, in the healthy blood, no such germs exist; crush the grape, wound the flesh, and expose them to the ordinary air, then changes, either fermentative or putrefactive, run their course.

Everything's dead, up there--no flesh or blood or growing thing anywhere.

One group of the French stood close to the road, and two of them, one of whom had his face covered with sores, were tearing a piece of raw flesh with their hands.

Sofia exclaimed and balled up her free hand into a fist until her nails bit into flesh.

There was a small scream, then the crack of bone and ripping of flesh.

She clambered over one and landed beside Darian, who smelled like burnt flesh.

In the Luritcha tribe it was customary when a child was in weak health to kill a younger and healthy one and feed the weakling on its flesh.

An officiant at once struck it with his axe and another cut its throat; then all save the one who struck the first blow partook of its flesh.

Her votaries abstained from the flesh of domestic fowls, fish, beans, pomegranates and apples.

She didn't feel his fangs sink into her, but she heard the sound of punctured flesh.

At first she said nothing but when he tried to rise, she grabbed his wrist and held it, her long nails cutting into his flesh.

Jessi flinched at the sound of metal against bone and flesh.

The judges, in making their awards at the show held annually in December, at Islington, North London (since 1862), are instructed to decide according to quality of flesh, lightness of offal, age and early maturity, with no restrictions as to feeding, and thus to promote the primary aim of the club in encouraging the selection and breeding of the best and most useful animals for the production of meat, and testing their capabilities in respect of early maturity.

A rash resolve led him to mutilate himself that he might escape from the lusts of the flesh, and work unhindered in the instruction of the female sex.

The most convincing proof of this is that Origen (i) takes the idea of the immutability of God as the regulating idea of his system, and (2) deprives the historical "Word made flesh" of all significance for the true Gnostic. To him Christ appears simply as the Logos who is with the Father from eternity, and works from all eternity, to whom alone the instructed Christian directs his thoughts, requiring nothing more than a perfect - i.e.

It need hardly be said that he spiritualized the church doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh.

Cnossian frescoes show women grouped apart, and they appear alone on gems. Flesh and fish and many kinds of vegetables were evidently eaten, and wine and beer were drunk.

Possibly the flesh was boiled off the bones at once ("scarification"), or left to rot in separate cists awhile; afterwards the skeletons were collected and the cists re-used.

In the highest hell rules alone the grisly king Sh'dum, "the warrior"; in the storey immediately beneath is Giv, "the great"; and in the lowest is Krun or Karkum, the oldest and most powerful of all, commonly called "the great mountain of flesh" (Third rabba d'besra), but also "the first-born of darkness."

There .are also fast days called m'battal (Arab.), on which it is forbidden to kill any living thing or eat flesh.

They still believe, as John did, in the return of Nero as the Antichrist; they still expect that after the first resurrection Christ will reign with his saints "in the flesh" for a thousand years.

In the religious world the Seventh-Day Adventists (who are connected with many sanatoria and the manufacture of food specialities) and some Bible Christians, the worshippers of Vishnu and the Swami Narang and Vishnoi sects, amongst others, preach abstinence from flesh food.

Their flesh is as good as that of the fat sheep of Castile.

The juicy white flesh breaks up during cooking and has an uninspiring flavor, so this variety is grown mainly for exhibition.

When cut, Hillbilly tomatoes reveal a starburst pattern in it's meaty flesh.

The little flesh that remained on his face was patchily browned, and bore traces of white greasepaint and rouge.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

It was designed to hide extra flesh in the midsection and hips, but then and now, this is a suit that is actually more unflattering, thanks to both the additional seam and the extra fabric that adds bulk.

While they didn't detail their crimes, both spoke of ruining their lives because of sins of the flesh.

Therefore the flesh, especially of the larger kinds, is of a red colour; and the energy of their muscular action causes the temperature of their blood to be several degrees higher than in other fishes.

That bread and wine should become flesh and blood and yet not lose the properties of bread and wine was, he held, contradictory to reason, and therefore irreconcilable with the truthfulness of God.

No flesh was served at table, and for drink only water either hot or cold.

Similarly throughout the Moslem world, all who can afford it sacrifice at this time a legal animal, and either consume the flesh themselves or give it to the poor.