Anatomy, a compound substance consisting of the various softer solids of the animal body, and so denominated in contradiction to bones. See Anatomy, paffion.

Flesh is also used in Theology, in speaking of the mysteries of the incarnation and eucharist. "The word was made flesh," Verbum caro factum est.

The Romanists hold, that the bread in the sacrament of the supper is turned into the real flesh of Jesus Christ. See Transubstantiation.

Flesh is sometimes also used by botanists for the soft pulpy substance of any fruit, enclosed between the outer rind or skin and the seeds or stone; or for that part of a root, fruit, &c., fit to be eaten.

Flesh-Colour. See Carnation.