“fleshless”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

fleshless

释义

fleshless, a.|ˈflɛʃlɪs|
[f. flesh n. + -less.]
1. Destitute of flesh.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. v. ii, Death..is seated on my horsemen's spears, And on their points his fleshless body feeds.1607Dekker Knt's Conjur. (1842) 41 Fleshlesse shin-bones dig'd out of graues.1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 113 The fleshless forms of the Preadamite Kings.1842Barham Ingol. Leg., Nell Cook, A fleshless, sapless, skeleton lay in that horrid well.
†b. Without material substance; phantom-like.
a1592Greene Alphonsus iii. (Rtldg.) 235/2 When thou know'st the certainty thereof, By fleshless visions shew it.
2. Without superfluous flesh; emaciated, lean.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv. Handy Crafts 38 He chooseth one [horse]..With..Dry Sinewy shanks; strong, fleshless knees.1809Crabbe Tales 36 Sheep..fleshless, lank and lean.1847J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) I. 161 Racking pain was in her fleshless bones.
†3. Without meat. Obs.^—1
c1394P. Pl. Crede 787 Wortes flechles wroughte.

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