(old).—Generic for the organs of generation, male or female. Also (of women) FLESHLY-PART.
1604. SHAKESPEARE, Winter’s Tale, iv. 3. She would not exchange FLESH with one that loved her. Ibid. (1605), Cymbeline, i. 5. Tf you buy ladies’ FLESH at a million a dram you cannot preserve it from tainting.
1620. PERCY, Folio MSS. [Hales & Furnivall, 1867], ‘As I was ridinge by the way.’ Sweet hart, shall I put my FLESH in thine?
