| 释义 |
fleshless, a.|ˈflɛʃlɪs|
[f. flesh n. + -less.]
1. Destitute of flesh.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. ii, Death..is seated on my horsemen's spears, And on their points his fleshless body feeds. 1607Dekker Knt's Conjur. (1842) 41 Fleshlesse shin-bones dig'd out of graues. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 113 The fleshless forms of the Preadamite Kings. 1842Barham Ingol. Leg., Nell Cook, A fleshless, sapless, skeleton lay in that horrid well.
†b. Without material substance; phantom-like.
a1592Greene Alphonsus iii. (Rtldg.) 235/2 When thou know'st the certainty thereof, By fleshless visions shew it.
2. Without superfluous flesh; emaciated, lean.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv. Handy Crafts 38 He chooseth one [horse]..With..Dry Sinewy shanks; strong, fleshless knees. 1809Crabbe Tales 36 Sheep..fleshless, lank and lean. 1847J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) I. 161 Racking pain was in her fleshless bones.
†3. Without meat. Obs.—1
c1394P. Pl. Crede 787 Wortes flechles wroughte. |