Limb vs Flesh - What's the difference?
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A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs .
A branch of a tree.
(lb) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
(lb) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
(lb) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun or moon.
The graduated margin of an arc or circle in an instrument for measuring angles.
An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.
To remove the limbs from an animal or tree.
To supply with limbs.
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(astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
(on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
*1918 , Fannie Farmer, , Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game:
*:The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
The skin of a human or animal.
(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
(archaic) Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.
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*:Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as ye be in the quest of the sancgreal / nor ye shalle drynke noo wyne / and that ye here masse dayly and ye may doo hit
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*:The flesh' that twycheth any vnclene thinge shall not be eaten. but burnt with fire:and all that be clene in their flesh, maye eate ' flesh .
*:Yf any soule eate of the flesh' of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclennesse yet apon him, the same soule shall perisshe from amonge his peoole(sic). ¶ Moreouer yf a soule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclennesse of man or of any vnclene beest or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ad the eate of the ' flesh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that soule shall perissh from his people.
The human body as a physical entity.
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*:And the preast shall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his flesh , and take awaye the asshes whiche the fire of the burntsacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them besyde the alter,
(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
*1769 , , 5, xvii,
*:For the flesh' lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the ' flesh : and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
*1929 January, Bassett Morgan ( ,
*:But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh .
(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
*2003 , Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest ,
*:The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.
(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
*Cowper
*:There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
*Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 27
*:He is our brother and our flesh .
A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
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To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
* 1933 , Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone (in) or (to) a given practice.
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To put flesh on; to fatten.
To add details.
To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
As nouns the difference between limb and flesh
is that limb is a major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing) while flesh is the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.As verbs the difference between limb and flesh
is that limb is to remove the limbs from an animal or tree while flesh is to bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.limb
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lim, from (etyl) . The silent -b began to appear in the late 1500s.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* go out on a limbVerb
(en verb)- They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
- Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* delimbEtymology 2
From (etyl) limbus , "border".Noun
(en noun)- solar limb
See also
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* English terms with multiple etymologiesflesh
English
(wikipedia flesh)Noun
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Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
- And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.
- The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.
