Fleeting, a. Transitory, transient, ephemeral, temporary, passing, evanescent, fugitive, flitting, flying, brief, short-lived, here to-day and gone to-morrow.

Fleetness, n. Swiftness, quickness, rapidity, celerity, velocity, speed, nimbleness.

Flesh, n.

    1. Muscle and fat (of animal bodies).
    2. Meat, animal food.
    3. Pulp, edible part (of fruit).
    4. Body (as opposed to spirit), flesh and blood, natural man (as opposed to the spiritual).
    5. Carnality, sensual appetites, bodily desires.
    6. Kindred, stock, race.
    7. Mankind, man, the world.

Flesh and blood.

    1. Body, human system, corporeal nature.
    2. Kindred, blood-kindred (especially one’s offspring).

Flesh-color, n. Carnation.

Flesh-eating, a. Carnivorous.

Fleshiness, n. Fatness, plumpness, corpulence, corpulency, embonpoint, obesity.

Fleshly, a.

    1. Human, of flesh.
    2. Carnal, sensual, lustful, lascivious, lecherous.

Fleshy, a. Fat, plump, corpulent, obese.

Fleur-de-lis, n. [Fr.] Yellow flag (Iris pseudacorus), flower-de-luce, flower-de-lis, iris.


  By PanEris using Melati.

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