FLESH

Definitions

1. 1. The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
2. 2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. Chaucer.
3. 3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person. As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable. Shak.
4. 4. The human eace; mankind; humanity. All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Gen. vi. 12.
5. 5. Human nature:
6. 6. In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. Cowper.
7. 7. In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
8. 8. Kindred; stock; race. He is our brother and our flesh. Gen. xxxvii. 27.
9. 9. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.