LekhoriLekhoriThe soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
The skin of a human or animal.
Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
Before they had fleshed the hounds, however, he recollected himself […].
To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognates Co...
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Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.