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well(-)fleshed, ppl. a.
1. Well furnished with flesh; plump, brawny. Also fig.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 448/2 Torosus,..well flesht. 1858[see fleshed ppl. a. 1]. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lxix, Happiness is considered as a well-fleshed indifference to sorrow outside it. 1901H. Sutcliffe Mistr. Barbara Cunliffe v. 76 Weel-fleshed men could niver stand up long agen an ale-pot.
2. Inured to or eager for bloodshed.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 372 As gray⁓hounds well flesht follow after wilde beasts. 1693Dryden Epit. Sir P. Fairborne's Tomb 11 Against the Moors his well-flesh'd Sword he draws. |