Word Meanings - FLESHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.

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• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• FLESHHOOD
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• FLESHINESS
  The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.
• SUCCESSFUL
  Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome,
• FLESHER
  1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
• ATTEND
  L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.
• FLESHLY
  1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton.
• BEGINNING
  1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• FLESHLESS
  Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.
• ATTENDANCE
  1. Attention; regard; careful application. Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times
• ATTENDANCY
  The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant.
• ATTENDER
  One who, or that which, attends.
• FLESHLING
  A person devoted to fleshly things. Spenser.
• FLESHMONGER
  One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. Shak.
• FLESHED
  1. Corpulent; fat; having flesh. 2. Glutted; satiated; initiated. Fleshed with slaughter. Dryden.
• BEGINNER
  One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.
• FLESHLINESS
  The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites. Spenser.
• FLESHINGS
  Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. D. Jerrold.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• UNSUCCESSFUL
  Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
• ENFLESH
  To clothe with flesh. Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.
• INFLESH
  To incarnate.
• OVEREXCITEMENT
  Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.
• MISATTEND
  To misunderstand; to disregard. Milton.