Flench
(Flench) v. t. Same as Flence.
Flense
(Flense) v. t. [Cf. Dan. flense, D. vlensen, vlenzen, Scot. flinch.] To strip the blubber or
skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
the flensed carcass of a fur seal.
U. S. Census Flesh
(Flesh) n. [OE. flesch, flesc, AS. flsc; akin to OFries. flask, D. vleesch, OS. flsk, OHG. fleisc,
G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard, bacon, pork, Sw. fläsk.]
1. The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and
other animals; especially, the muscles.
In composition it is mainly albuminous, but contains in adition a large number of crystalline bodies, such
as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin, carnin, etc. It is also rich in phosphate of potash.
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. 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. The human eace; mankind; humanity.
All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Gen. vi. 12. 5. Human nature: (a) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
Cowper. (b) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
(c) (Theol.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved
by spiritual influences.
6. Kindred; stock; race.
He is our brother and our flesh.
Gen. xxxvii. 27. 7. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
Flesh is often used adjectively or self-explaining compounds; as, flesh broth or flesh-broth; flesh brush
or fleshbrush; flesh tint or flesh-tint; flesh wound.
