Word Meanings - CARNIVORACITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Greediness of appetite for flesh. Pope.

Related words: (words related to CARNIVORACITY)

• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• FLESHHOOD
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
• FLESHINESS
  The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.
• GREEDINESS
  The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire. Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness. Shak. Syn.-- Ravenousness; voracity; eagerness; avidity.
• FLESHER
  1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
• FLESHLY
  1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton.
• FLESHLESS
  Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.
• FLESHLING
  A person devoted to fleshly things. Spenser.
• FLESHMONGER
  One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. Shak.
• FLESHED
  1. Corpulent; fat; having flesh. 2. Glutted; satiated; initiated. Fleshed with slaughter. Dryden.
• FLESHLINESS
  The state of being fleshly; carnal passions and appetites. Spenser.
• FLESHINGS
  Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. D. Jerrold.
• FLESHQUAKE
  A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. B. Jonson.
• FLESHPOT
  A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked; hence ,
• APPETITE
  appetere to strive after, long for; ad + petere to seek. See 1. The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind. The object of appetite it whatsoever sensible good may be wished for; the object of will is that good
• FLESH
  vleesch, OS. fl, OHG. fleisc, G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard, 1. The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles. Note: In composition it is
• FLESHY
  Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants. (more info) 1. Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross. The sole of his foot is fleshy. Ray. 2. Human. "Fleshy tabernacle." Milton.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• ENFLESH
  To clothe with flesh. Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.
• INFLESH
  To incarnate.
• UNFLESHLY
  Not pertaining to the flesh; spiritual.
• UNFLESH
  To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton. "Unfleshed humanity." Wordsworth.
• DISFLESH
  To reduce the flesh or obesity of. Shelton.