Definition of: flesh

(flesh) noun
1. The portion of an animal body that consists of the softer tissues; especially, the muscular part of the body, but the fats being often included: distinguished from the fluids, bones, and integuments.
2. Animal food or meat as distinguished from vegetable; in a restricted sense, the meat of mammals and birds as distinguished from fish.
3. The material part of man as distinguished from the spiritual; the body as opposed to the soul.
4. Mankind in general; the human race.
5. In Scriptural and theological use, human nature; specifically, the carnal nature of man as affected with evil inclinations.
6. Desire for the gratification of sensual passions.
7. Poetic Kind-heartedness; gentleness of nature.
8. The outer appearance or color of a person's body: a man of dark flesh.
9. Animal life as a whole.
10. The soft, pulpy parts of fruits and vegetables, as distinguished from skin, etc.
11. The color of the skin of a white person; flesh-colored.
12. Kin; family stock.
—in the flesh
1. In person.
2. Alive.
—own flesh and blood One's own family, relations, or descendants.
—v.t.
1. To plunge, as a sword, into the flesh, especially for the first time.
2. To inure or initiate, as troops, by giving a first experience of warfare.
3. To incite, as hawks for hunting, with a first experience of killing.
4. To scrape the flesh from, as a hide.
5. To invest or pad out with flesh.
6. To make fat or fleshy.
—v.i.
7. To become fat or fleshy.
—flesh out To give substance or the appearance of reality to; develop fully: to flesh out an idea. [OE flæsc]