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▪ I. unˈfleshed, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8 + flesh v.]
Not yet stimulated by tasting flesh; fig., untried, inexperienced, new. Also absol.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 280, I wil never present an hoste unto y⊇ high capitaine of Roome..unfleashed on their enemies. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. 125/1 Some..who (like unflesht souldiers) gaue ouer their enterprise without further hope. 1635–56Cowley Davideis iii. 499 With some less Foe thy unflesht valour try. 1692Dryden Cleomenes v. ii, As a generous, unfleshed hound, that hears From far the hunters' horn and cheerful cry. 1748Richardson Clarissa VII. 409, I am no unfleshed novice; this [duel] is a sport, that..I love as well as my food. 1833Lytton Godolphin 8 Percy's heart was full of enterprise and the unfleshed valour of inexperience. 1895Meredith Amazing Marriage ix, Customary phrases of the unfleshed in folly.
▪ II. unˈfleshed, ppl. a.2
[f. unflesh v., or un-1 8.]
a. Stripped of flesh.
b. Not covered with flesh.
1607W. Barksted Mirrha D 4 b, Nor let the dead repine,..let the vnflesht thronges..be glad. 1795Southey Vis. Maid Orleans i. 99 Behold this skull, These eyeless sockets, and these unflesh'd jaws. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav., At Sea, May it be long before Professor Owen is comforted with the sight of his unfleshed vertebræ. |