| 释义 |
fleshed, ppl. a.|flɛʃt|
[f. flesh n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Clothed or furnished with flesh: chiefly with some defining prefix. Also, fleshed and boned.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (E.E.T.S.) 224 Lytill..lymes of the body, and lene y flesshide. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 276 To be meanely fleshed, that is, neither ouermuch nor verie little. 1611Bible Gen. xli. 2 There came vp out of the riuer seuen well fauoured kine, and fat fleshed. 1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 99 The Partridge is larger than ours, white flesht. 1748Richardson Clarissa Wks. 1883 VII. 287 His loose fleshed wabbling chaps, which hung on his shoulders. 1851Ruskin Mod. Paint. II. ii. iii. iv. §16 Painters..who can set the supernatural form before us, fleshed and boned like ourselves. 1858Hogg Life Shelley II. x. 316 My..hostess asked me..what I thought of the handsome, well-fleshed girl? 1869Daily News 30 July, A very sleek, level-fleshed bull.
b. of fruit (with defining prefix).
1859Jephson Brittany v. 63 The magnificent orange-fleshed melon. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. iv. (1873) 67 A yellow or purple fleshed fruit.
2. [Cf. F. acharné.]
a. Inured to bloodshed, hardened.
b. Eager for battle.
c. Animated by relentless hatred, bent on the destruction or injury of a person. Const. upon.
a.1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iii. 6 They were flesht Villaines, bloody Dogges. a1616Beaum. & Fl. Custom of Country iv. i, A flesh'd ruffian.
b.1591Horsey Trav. (Hakluyt Soc.) 263 The Poll..with his..now fleshed armye, assaults..townes of the Muscovetts. 1719D'Urfey Pills I. 355 The Jacks are fierce, and Williamites are flesh'd.
c.c1620Trag. Barnavelt iv. iii. in Bullen Old Pl. (1883) II. 277 There can be no attonement..Vandort is fleshd upon me. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 176 They were so fleshed upon one another, that they aspired to nothing less then peace. |