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fleshiness|ˈflɛʃɪnɪs|
Also 5 fleshnes.
[f. fleshy a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being fleshy; fullness of flesh.
14..tr. Secreta Secret. cxxxii. (E.E.T.S.) 117 With⁓oute greet fleshnes yn þe knees. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe i. (1541) 2/1 Carnositie or fleshynesse. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxi. (1887) 90 Running..abateth the fleshinesse, and corpulence of the body. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. (1851) 170 A diet puffing up the soul with a slimy fleshinesse. 1788Baillie in Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 358 [He] used his right hand in preference to his left..which was readily discovered by..the greater fleshiness of the arm. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 72 Flowers, with no peculiar fleshiness in the anthers. 1883G. Allen in Longm. Mag. July 311 (Strawberries), Suppose any ancestral potentilla ever to have shown any marked tendency towards fleshiness in the berry.
fig.1644Vaughan Serm. 8 A Wisdom of the flesh..a kind of flesh, and fleshines in the very mind and spirit.
b. concr. A fleshy substance or growth.
1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 83 The male hath no combe, as our Cockes, but in stead thereof a red fleshinesse. |