flesh-meat

  • 51To sit at meat — Meat Meat (m[=e]t), n. [OE. mete, AS. mete; akin to OS. mat, meti, D. met hashed meat, G. mettwurst sausage, OHG. maz food, Icel. matr, Sw. mat, Dan. mad, Goth. mats. Cf. {Mast} fruit, {Mush}.] 1. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment …

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  • 52Meat on the bone — Cooked T bone steak showing T shaped bone Cut of raw salmon showing bon …

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  • 53flesh — /flɛʃ / (say flesh) noun 1. the soft substance of an animal body, consisting of muscle and fat. 2. muscular tissue. 3. fatness; weight: to put on flesh. 4. such substance of animals as an article of food, usually excluding fish and sometimes… …

  • 54flesh — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. animal tissue, meat, pulp; humanity, materiality, carnality; blood relative. See food, impurity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. flesh colored, beige, cream, creamy; see tan . n. 1. [Soft parts of an… …

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  • 55meat — meatless, adj. /meet/, n. 1. the flesh of animals as used for food. 2. the edible part of anything, as a fruit or nut: Crack the walnuts and remove the meats. 3. the essential point or part of an argument, literary work, etc.; gist; crux: The… …

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  • 56flesh — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, Leatherette, Leatheroid, agnate, alive, all that lives, anatomy, ancestry, animalism, animality, aspic, barbecue, beastliness, bestiality, biosphere, biota, blood, blood relation, blood… …

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  • 57flesh — noun 1) you need more flesh on your bones Syn: muscle, meat, tissue, brawn; informal beef 2) she carries too much flesh Syn: fat, weight; Anatomy adipose tissue; informal blubber, flab 3) a fruit with juicy flesh …

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  • 58flesh fly — noun fly whose larvae feed on carrion or the flesh of living animals • Syn: ↑Sarcophaga carnaria • Hypernyms: ↑fly • Member Holonyms: ↑Sarcophaga, ↑genus Sarcophaga * * * noun …

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  • 59flesh — noun 1) his smooth, white flesh Syn: tissue, skin, body, muscle, fat 2) strip the flesh from the bone Syn: meat, muscle 3) a fruit with juicy flesh Syn …

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  • 60meat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pith, essence, substance, core. See food, meaning. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Animal flesh] Syn. food, flesh, veal, mutton, lamb, chicken, turkey, goose, duck, rabbit, venison, goat s meat, horsemeat; see …

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