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Flesh vs. Fleshmonger — What's the Difference?

Flesh vs. Fleshmonger — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Flesh and Fleshmonger

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Flesh

Flesh is a term for some soft tissues of an organism. Various multicellular organisms have soft tissues that may be called "flesh".

Fleshmonger

(archaic) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp, procurer, or pander.

Flesh

The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate, covering the bones and consisting mainly of skeletal muscle and fat
Thought the boy needed some more flesh on his bones.

Fleshmonger

One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander.

Flesh

Such tissue of an animal, used as food
Flesh of a cow.
Fish with white flesh.
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Flesh

The surface or skin of the human body
Goosebumps on my flesh.

Flesh

Fatty tissue
"a woman of wide and abundant flesh" (A.S. Byatt).

Flesh

(Botany) The pulpy, usually edible part of a fruit or vegetable.

Flesh

The human body
"the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to" (Shakespeare).

Flesh

Sensual appetites
Gratification of the flesh.

Flesh

Substance; reality
"The maritime strategy has an all but unstoppable institutional momentum behind it ... that has given force and flesh to the theory" (Jack Beatty).

Flesh

To give substance or detail to; fill out. Often used with out
Fleshed out the novel with a subplot.

Flesh

To clean (a hide) of adhering flesh.

Flesh

To encourage (a falcon, for example) to participate in the chase by feeding it flesh from a kill.

Flesh

To plunge or thrust (a weapon) into flesh.

Flesh

(Archaic) To inure (troops, for instance) to battle or bloodshed.

Flesh

To become plump or fleshy; gain weight.

Flesh

The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

Flesh

The skin of a human or animal.

Flesh

(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.

Flesh

Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).

Flesh

The human body as a physical entity.

Flesh

(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.

Flesh

(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.

Flesh

The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.

Flesh

(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

Flesh

(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.

Flesh

A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.

Flesh

(transitive) 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.

Flesh

(transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.

Flesh

(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.

Flesh

(transitive) To glut.

Flesh

(transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.

Flesh

To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

Flesh

The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

Flesh

Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.

Flesh

The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
As if this flesh, which walls about our life,Were brass impregnable.

Flesh

The human eace; mankind; humanity.
All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Flesh

Human nature
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.

Flesh

In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.

Flesh

Kindred; stock; race.
He is our brother and our flesh.

Flesh

The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.

Flesh

To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; - from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
Full bravely hast thou fleshedThy maiden sword.
The wild dogShall flesh his tooth on every innocent.

Flesh

To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
Old soldiersFleshed in the spoils of Germany and France.

Flesh

To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

Flesh

The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat

Flesh

Alternative names for the body of a human being;
Leonardo studied the human body
He has a strong physique
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

Flesh

A soft moist part of a fruit

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