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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blowfly \Blow"fly`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of fly of the genus {Musca} that deposits its eggs or young larv[ae] (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: , but contains in adition a large number of crystalline bodies, such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin, carnin, etc It is also rich in phosphate of potash. 2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. --Chaucer. 3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person. As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable. --Shak. 4. The human eace; mankind; humanity. All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. --Gen. vi 12. 5. Human nature: a In a good sense tenderness of feeling; gentleness. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. --Cowper. b In a bad sense tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality. c (Theol.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences. 6. Kindred; stock; race. He is our brother and our flesh. --Gen. xxxvii 27. 7. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also that part of a root, fruit, and the like which is fit to be eaten. Note: Flesh is often used adjectively or self-explaining compounds; as flesh broth or flesh-broth; flesh brush or fleshbrush flesh tint or flesh-tint; flesh wound. {After the flesh}, after the manner of man; in a gross or earthly manner. ``Ye judge after the flesh.'' --John viii. 15. {An arm of flesh}, human strength or aid. {Flesh and blood}. See under {Blood}. {Flesh broth}, broth made by boiling flesh in water. {Flesh fly} (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of flies whose larv[ae] or maggots feed upon flesh, as the bluebottle fly; -- called also {meat fly}, {carrion fly}, and {blowfly}. See {Blowly}. {Flesh meat}, animal food. --Swift. {Flesh side}, the side of a skin or hide which was next to the flesh; -- opposed to grain side {Flesh tint} (Painting), a color used in painting to imitate the hue of the living body. {Flesh worm} (Zo["o]l.), any insect larva of a flesh fly. See {Flesh fly} (above). {Proud flesh}. See under {Proud}. {To be one flesh}, to be closely united as in marriage; to become as one person. --Gen. ii 24. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: blowfly n : large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds [syn: {blow fly}]
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