flesh
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Is flesh a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.broadlyuncountableusually
2. (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.Examples: "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."; "For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that yee cannot doe the things that yee would."; "1929 January, Bassett Morgan (Grace Jones), Bimini, first published in Weird Tales, reprinted 1949, in Avon Fantasy Reader, Issue 10, But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh."uncountableusually
3. (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.uncountableusually
4. (obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.Examples: "There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart."obsoleteuncountableusually
5. (obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.Examples: "He is our brother and our flesh."obsoleteuncountableusually
verb (English)
1. (transitive) 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.Examples: "Before they had fleshed the hounds, however, he recollected himself […]."transitive
2. (transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.Examples: "Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in."transitive
3. (obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.Examples: "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."obsolete
4. (transitive) To glut.transitive
5. (transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary