flesh hook, fleschok, flesh hoke

[Eng. flesh, and hook.] 1. A hook to hang meat. 2. A hook to handle meat in a pot or caldron. fiěsh-i-ne , s. [Eng. fleshy; -ne .] The quality or state of being fileshy; fatne , plumpne , corpulence. When the sebaceous follicles around the nose are clogged or inflamed, constituting the disease Acne follicular is (q. v.), they sometimes contain a small arachnidan (spider) of low organization, called in English the maggot-pimple, or in Latin Demodex folliculorum . [DEMODEX.] It is not generally called a fleshworm. fiěsh-ý, a. [Eng. flesh; -y.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) Full of flesh; fat, plump, corpulent, gro . "Galley-slaves are fat and fleshie because they stirre the limbs more, and the inward parts le ."-Bacon: Nat. Hist., § 877. (2) Full of pulp; pulpous, plump. (Said of fruit.) "Those fruits that are so fleshy as they cannot make drink by expre ion, yet they make drink by mixture of water."- Bacon . (3) Consisting of flesh; fleshly, corporeal. "Neither would they make to themselves fleshy hearts for stony."- Ecclus . xvii. 16. *2. Fig .: Puffed, inflated. "We say it is a fleshy stile when there is much periphrases and circuit of words, and when with more than enough it grows fat and corpulent."- Ben Jonson: Discov eries. 117 II. Technically : flex 1. Zool.: Having an abundance of soft flesh-like substance within a thin integument instead of being incased in a horny or calcareous envelope. 2. Bot .: Firm, juicy, easily cut. ( Lindley .) fleshy-leaf, s. Bot .: A leaf which is thick, juicy, and easily cut Examples, the leaves of the Cactus, the House-leek, Pinguicula, . fleshy-polypes, s. pl. Zool .: The polypes of the genus Actinia and its allies. fiět, pa. par. or a. [FLEET, v.] A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adj.: Skimmed. "They drink flet milk, which they just warm." Mortimer: Husbandry. filet, fleat, s . [Ger. flechten to plait.] A mat of plaited straw for protecting a horse's back from injury by the load. fiětch, v. t. [Fr. flèche =an arrow.] [FLETCHER.] To feather, as an arrow; to fledge. *fiětch-er, *flec-chere, *flec-chour, s . [O. Fr. flechier, from flèche an arrow; Sp. flecha ; Port. flecha , frecha .] Properly, the man who made and set the feathers on arrows (the arrows themselves being made by the arrow smiths), but commonly used for a maker of bows and arrows. fiěth-er, s. [FLETHER, v.] Fattery, fair words, coaxing, wheedling. "No, never! What! do ye think to beguile me' wi' your fleeching and your flethers to do the devil's work?" -Young South Country Weaver , p. 98.