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fleshy (iou)



fleshy adjective. LME.
[from FLESH noun + -Y1.]
Well furnished with flesh, fat, plump. LME.
G. Greene The fleshy and porky figure of the actor.
Of or pertaining to flesh; esp. consisting of flesh, without bone. Also fig. (now rare), of a heart etc.: soft, tender. LME.
Tyndale The pistle of Christ..written..not in tables of stone, but in flesshy tables of the herte.
b. Of plant or fruit tissue: pulpy, not fibrous. L16.
c. Corporeal, bodily. E17.
Milton He, sovran priest..Poor fleshy tabernacle entered.
= FLESHLY 4. LME-M16.
Bible (Coverdale): Job 10:4 Hast thou fleszshy eyes then, or doest thou loke as man loketh?
Resembling flesh, like flesh. LME.
J. Abernethy An increase of bulk, and a fleshy feel.
fleshiness noun LME.