adv. Obs. [f. FLESH sb. + -WARD.] Towards or in relation to humanity.
1674. N. Fairfax, A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World, vi. 184. If then we do but know how the earths globe, or that of it that lyes fleshward, bears it self to the throng of mens bodies made out of it, we may at length come at such a bound of time or term of years, beyond which we may be sure the world shall not hold out.
