fleshment (fleshment)

[ a succe ful attack. And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit, Drew on me here again. Shak ., Lear, ii. fleshmonger (flesh'mung"ger), n. [ The vsage of flesh emong eres ys swych, that euerych flesh emong ere, out of fraunchyse, that haldeth stal, shal [pay] to the kynge of custom fyne and twenty pans by the gere. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 354. 2t. A procurer; a pimp. [Slang.] Was the duke a flesh - monger , a fool, and a coward, as you then reported him? Shak., M. for M., v. 1. fleshpot (flesh'pot), n. [= D. vleeschpot.] 1. A A ve el ve el in which flesh is cooked. Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full. Ex. xvi. 3. Hence (in allusion to the pa age above quoted) -2. Food; also, the indulgence of animal appetites. But we, alas, the Flesh - pots love, We love the very Leeks, and sordid Roots below. Cowley, Pindaric Odes, xiv. 1. 3. In her ., a bearing representing a three-leg- ged iron pot, usually, though not always, de- picted sable. fleshquaket (flesh'kwāk), n. [ quake : in imitation of earthquake .] A trembling of the flesh. They may, blood-shaken then, Feel such a flesh - quake to po e their powers As they shall cry like ours. B. Jonson, Ode to Himself.