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fleshy, a.|ˈflɛʃɪ|
[f. flesh n. + -y1. Cf. Ger. fleischig.]
1. Well furnished with flesh; fat, plump.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 954 Armes ever lith, Fattish, fleshy, nat great therewith. 14..Lydg. & Burgh Secrees 2685 In knees..he that is ovir moche fflesshy. 1555Eden Decades 3 The other moste flesshy partes [of fattened children] they pouder for store. 1626Bacon Sylva §399 The æthiopes..are Plumpe, and Fleshy. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 3 Sheepe that growe fleshy with foure teeth, will growe fatte with eight. 1793Ld. Auckland Corr. III. 69 Colonel Pack..was shot through the fleshy part of the arm. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk., Country Ch. (1865) 126 A fine, fleshy, comfortable dame. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxiii, His face..had expanded..and its bold fleshy curves had..far extended beyond the limits originally assigned them.
fig.1636B. Jonson Discov. (Rtldg.) 759/1 It is a fleshy stile when there is much periphrasis, and circuit of words; and when with more than enough it grows fat and corpulent.
2. Of or pertaining to flesh; consisting of flesh; without bone.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 106 Þe heed is maad of þre parties, of a fleischi partie, of a bony partie & a brawni partie. 1581Mulcaster Positions xv. (1887) 69 Such fleshy partes as be about the ribbes. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxix. 173 The fleshy parts being congealed. 1700Dryden Pythag. Philos. in Fables 508 If Men with fleshy Morsels must be fed [ed. 1721 reads fleshly, and it is so cited by J.]. 1792J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampshire III. 215 Besides the fleshy parts of the cod, its liver is preserved in casks. 1807–26Cooper First Lines Surg. 189 Every kind of fleshy tumour. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 335 No species of reptile is possessed of true fleshy lips.
b. Corporeal, bodily.
1624Massinger Renegado iii. ii, When it [the soul] grows weary Of this fleshy prison. c1630Milton Passion 17 He, sovran priest..Poor fleshy tabernacle entered. 1814Byron Lara i. xviii, He..charged all faults upon the fleshy form She [Nature] gave to clog the soul. 1864Hawthorne S. Felton (1883) 341 Fruits, milk, freshest butter, will make thy fleshy tabernacle youthful.
c. Of ‘flesh’, implying softness and tenderness. Cf. flesh n. 1 f.
1526Tindale 2 Cor. iii. 3 The pistle of Christ..written..not in tables of stone, but in flesshy tables of the herte. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. Cant. ii. 15 §28 His wil is that stonie hearts be turned into fleshie. 1611Bible Ecclus. xvii. 16 Neither could they make to themselues fleshie hearts for stonie.
d. Of a plant, leaf, fruit, etc.: Having a firm, or somewhat firm pulp; pulpy, not fibrous. Cf. flesh n. 2.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 110 b, The whole bodie of the Figge is fleshie. 1626Bacon Sylva §633 Those Juyces, that are so fleshy, as they cannot make Drinke by Expression..may make Drinke by Mixture of Water. 1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 66 Vine, much differing in the Fruit, all of them very fleshy. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 37 A round, fleshy Berry, like that of Myrtle. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 428 Leaves opposite, egg-shaped, blunt, fleshy. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 282 Drupa, a Stone-fruit, has a fleshy coat. 1854Hooker Himal. Jrnls. I. i. 16 The natives distil a kind of arrack from its fleshy flowers. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. xi. 211 They have..thick fleshy leaves.
†3. Of the ‘flesh’ as opposed to the ‘spirit’; human as opposed to ‘spiritual’; = fleshly 4.
a1400Prymer (1891) 78 Whethir þyn eyen be fleschchi, or thou seest as man schal se. 1535Coverdale Job x. 4 Hast thou fleszshy eyes then, or doest thou loke as man loketh?
†b. Carnal, sensual; = fleshly a. 1. Obs.
1604T. Wright Passions v. §4. 212 Fleshy concupiscence deserveth rather the name of Mercenarie Lust then Love. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xvii. 45 Such as are given to fleshy desires, have larger Kidneys then ordinary.
4. Resembling flesh in its properties or qualities.
1555Eden Decades 233 They [Rubies] are..of a fleshye colour. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 26 The Mannatee is the other fish..and from their using the shoar have a fleshie taste resembling Veal. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 215 His colouring was good, and his figures fleshy and round. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 19 They agree in the external characters, those of an increase of bulk, and a fleshy feel. |