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2. To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom. "Fleshed in triumphs." Glanvill.

Old soldiers Fleshed in the spoils of Germany and France.

Beau. & Fl.

3. (Leather Manufacture) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

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Fleshed (?), a. 1. Corpulent; fat; having flesh.

2. Glutted; satiated; initiated.

Fleshed with slaughter.

Dryden.

Flesh"er (?), n. 1. A butcher.

A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down.

Macaulay.

2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

Flesh"hood (?), n. The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. [R.]

Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood.

Mrs. Browning.

Flesh"i*ness (?), n. The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.

Flesh"ings (?), n. pl. Flesh- colored tights, worn by actors and dancers. D. Jerrold.

Flesh"less, a. Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.

Flesh"li*ness (?), n. The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites. Spenser.

Flesh"ling (?), n. A person devoted to fleshly things. [Obs.] Spenser.

Flesh"ly (-l), a. [AS. flsclc.] 1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham.

2. Animal; not vegetable. Dryden.

3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12.

Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms.

Milton.

4. Carnal; wordly; lascivious.

Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.