ppl. a.

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  1.  Well furnished with flesh; plump, brawny. Also fig.

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1585.  Higins, Junius’ Nomencl., 448/2. Torosus,… well flesht.

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1858.  [see FLESHED ppl. a. 1].

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1876.  Geo. Eliot, Deronda, lxix. Happiness is considered as a well-fleshed indifference to sorrow outside it.

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1901.  H. Sutcliffe, Mistr. Barbara Cunliffe, v. 76. Weel-fleshed men could niver stand up long agen an ale-pot.

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  2.  Inured to or eager for bloodshed.

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1586.  T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., I. (1594), 372. As grayhounds well flesht follow after wilde beasts.

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1693.  Dryden, Epit. Sir P. Fairborne’s Tomb, 11. Against the Moors his well-flesh’d Sword he draws.

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