[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flesh \flesh\ fle^sh, n. oe. flesch, flesc, as. fl=aesc;
   akin to ofries. fl=ask, d. vleesch, os. fl=esk, ohg.
   fleisc, g. fleisch, icel.  dan. flesk lard, bacon, pork, sw.
   flaumsk.
   1. the aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which
      cover the framework of bones in man and other animals;
      especially, the muscles.
      1913 webster

   note: in composition it is mainly proteinaceous, but contains
         in adition a large number of low-molecular-weight
         subtances, such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin,
         carnin, etc. it is also rich in potassium phosphate.
         1913 webster

   2. animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat;
      especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as
      distinguished from fish.
      1913 webster

            with roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.
                                                  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   3. the human body, as distinguished from the soul; the
      corporeal person.
      1913 webster

            as if this flesh, which walls about our life,
            were brass impregnable.               --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. the human eace; mankind; humanity.
      1913 webster

            all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
                                                  --gen. vi. 12.
      1913 webster

   5. human nature:
      a in a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
          1913 webster

                there is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
                                                  --cowper.
      b in a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical
          pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
      c theol. the character under the influence of animal
          propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by
          spiritual influences.
          1913 webster

   6. kindred; stock; race.
      1913 webster

            he is our brother and our flesh.      --gen. xxxvii.
                                                  27.
      1913 webster

   7. the soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a
      root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
      1913 webster

   note: flesh is often used adjectively or self-explaining
         compounds; as, flesh broth or flesh-broth; flesh brush
         or fleshbrush; flesh tint or flesh-tint; flesh wound.
         1913 webster

   after the flesh, after the manner of man; in a gross or
      earthly manner. "ye judge after the flesh." --john viii.
      15.

   an arm of flesh, human strength or aid.

   flesh and blood. see under blood.

   flesh broth, broth made by boiling flesh in water.

   flesh fly zool., one of several species of flies whose
      larvae or maggots feed upon flesh, as the bluebottle
      fly; -- called also meat fly, carrion fly, and
      blowfly. see blowly.

   flesh meat, animal food. --swift.

   flesh side, the side of a skin or hide which was next to
      the flesh; -- opposed to grain side.

   flesh tint painting, a color used in painting to imitate
      the hue of the living body.

   flesh worm zool., any insect larva of a flesh fly. see
      flesh fly above.

   proud flesh. see under proud.

   to be one flesh, to be closely united as in marriage; to
      become as one person. --gen. ii. 24.
      1913 webster
see also:
fish after the flesh an arm of flesh flesh and blood blood flesh broth 
flesh fly meat fly carrion fly blowfly blowly 
flesh meat flesh side grain side flesh tint flesh worm 
proud flesh proud to be one flesh 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blood \blood\ blu^d, n. oe. blod, blood, as. bl=od; akin
   to d. bloed, ohg. bluot, g. blut, goth. bl=othorn, icel.
   bl=oeth, sw.  dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as e.
   blow to bloom. see blow to bloom.
   1. the fluid which circulates in the principal vascular
      system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of
      the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted.
      see under arterial.
      1913 webster

   note: the blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing
         minute particles, the blood corpuscles. in the
         invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless,
         and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all
         vertebrates, except amphioxus, it contains some
         colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and
         give the blood its uniformly red color. see
         corpuscle, plasma.
         1913 webster

   2. relationship by descent from a common ancestor;
      consanguinity; kinship.
      1913 webster

            to share the blood of saxon royalty.  --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

            a friend of our own blood.            --waller.
      1913 webster

   half blood law, relationship through only one parent.

   whole blood, relationship through both father and mother.
      in american law, blood includes both half blood, and whole
      blood. --bouvier. --peters.
      1913 webster

   3. descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest
      royal lineage.
      1913 webster

            give us a prince of blood, a son of priam. --shak.
      1913 webster

            i am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. stock breeding descent from parents of recognized breed;
      excellence or purity of breed.
      1913 webster

   note: in stock breeding half blood is descent showing one
         half only of pure breed. blue blood, full blood, or
         warm blood, is the same as blood.
         1913 webster

   5. the fleshy nature of man.
      1913 webster

            nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --shak.
      1913 webster

   6. the shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder;
      manslaughter; destruction.
      1913 webster

            so wills the fierce, avenging sprite,
            till blood for blood atones.          --hood.
      1913 webster

   7. a bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. r.
      1913 webster

            he was a thing of blood, whose every motion
            was timed with dying cries.           --shak.
      1913 webster

   8. temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as
      if the blood were the seat of emotions.
      1913 webster

            when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   note: often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm,
         or other qualifying word. thus, to commit an act in
         cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without
         sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in
         anger. warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or
         irritated. to warm or heat the blood is to excite the
         passions. qualified by up, excited feeling or passion
         is signified; as, my blood was up.
         1913 webster

   9. a man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man;
      a rake.
      1913 webster

            seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all
            the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

            it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
                                                  --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   10. the juice of anything, especially if red.
       1913 webster

             he washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
                                                  --gen. xiix.
                                                  11.
       1913 webster

   note: blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first
         part of self-explaining compound words; as,
         blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling,
         blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained,
         blood-warm, blood-won.
         1913 webster

   blood baptism eccl. hist., the martyrdom of those who had
      not been baptized. they were considered as baptized in
      blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for
      literal baptism.

   blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody
      serum, usually caused by an injury.

   blood brother, brother by blood or birth.

   blood clam zool., a bivalve mollusk of the genus arca and
      allied genera, esp. argina pexata of the american coast.
      so named from the color of its flesh.

   blood corpuscle. see corpuscle.

   blood crystal physiol., one of the crystals formed by the
      separation in a crystalline form of the haemoglobin of
      the red blood corpuscles; haematocrystallin. all blood
      does not yield blood crystals.

   blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood,
      or about 981/2 deg fahr.

   blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from
      the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.

   blood money. see in the vocabulary.

   blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp.

   blood poisoning med., a morbid state of the blood caused
      by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from
      without, or the absorption or retention of such as are
      produced in the body itself; toxaemia.

   blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
      

   blood relation, one connected by blood or descent.

   blood spavin. see under spavin.

   blood vessel. see in the vocabulary.

   blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families,
      which, according to a spanish prover, has in it a tinge of
      blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic
      family.

   flesh and blood.
       a a blood relation, esp. a child.
       b human nature.

   in blood hunting, in a state of perfect health and vigor.
      --shak.

   to let blood. see under let.

   prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue
      of a royal family. the sons, brothers, and uncles of the
      sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the
      daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood
      royal.
      1913 webster
see also:
blow arterial corpuscle plasma half blood whole blood 
blood baptism blood blister blood brother blood clam argina pexata 
blood corpuscle blood crystal blood heat blood horse blood money 
blood orange blood poisoning blood pudding blood relation blood spavin 
spavin blood vessel blue blood flesh and blood in blood 
to let blood let prince of the blood 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

54 moby thesaurus words for "flesh and blood":
   agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative,
   bodiliness, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative,
   concreteness, connections, consanguinean, corporality,
   corporeality, corporealness, corporeity, distaff side,
   distant relation, embodiment, enate, family, flesh, folks, german,
   kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen,
   kinswoman, kith and kin, materiality, materialness, near relation,
   next of kin, people, physicality, physicalness, posterity,
   relations, relatives, sib, sibling, spear kin, spear side,
   spindle kin, spindle side, substantiality, sword side, tribesman,
   uterine kin

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