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[ME. flesch -hewere = D. vleesch houwer = MLG. vleschhouwer, LG. vlesch howere, Cf. flesher.] A butcher. fleshh fleshhood (flesh hud), n. [ IMG:content-1486.png:[blocks in formation] promised: and the fleshlynges, the reprobate, with the plagues thret ned. Confutation of N. Shaxton (1546), sig. L, 5. D. fleshly (flesh'li), a. [ In the body of this fleshly land [his own person), This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath, Hostility and civil tumult reigns Between my conscience and my cousin's death. Shak., K. John, iv. 2. IMG:content-1487.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Pertaining to the flesh or body as the seat of appetite; carnal; not spiritual or divine; in an extreme sense, lascivious. Ne from thenceforth doth any fleshly sense, Or idle thought of earthly things, remaine. Spenser , Hymn of Heavenly Beauty. Not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. 2 Cor. L. 12 Abstain from fleshly lusts. 1 Pet. ii. 11. This fleshly lord, he doted on my wife. Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, iv. 2. 'Tis then for nought that mother earth provides The stores of all she shows, and all she hides, If men with fleshly morsels must be fed, And chaw with bloody teeth the breathing bread. Dryden. When any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a flesh hook of three teeth in his hand; and he struck it into the pan him fleshly (flesh'li), ade . [ fleschly ; flesh all that the flesh hook brought up the priest took for 1 Sam. ii. 13, 14. +-ly2.] Carnally; lasciviously. Chaucer. self. a bearing representing a sharp-pointed hook, or more usually three hooks emerging from the same stem. for rubbing the surface of the body to excite action in it by friction.