'Flesh and blood' definitions:

Definition of 'Flesh and blood'

From: GCIDE
  • Blood \Blood\ (bl[u^]d), n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl[=o]d; akin to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. bl[=o][thorn], Icel. bl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E. blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom.]
  • 1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. [1913 Webster]
  • To share the blood of Saxon royalty. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • A friend of our own blood. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
  • Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent.
  • Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. --Bouvier. --Peters. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage. [1913 Webster]
  • Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. The fleshy nature of man. [1913 Webster]
  • Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. [1913 Webster]
  • So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones. --Hood. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions. [1913 Webster]
  • When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. [1913 Webster]
  • Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. The juice of anything, especially if red. [1913 Webster]
  • He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. --Gen. xiix. 11. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won. [1913 Webster]
  • Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism.
  • Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury.
  • Blood brother, brother by blood or birth.
  • Blood clam (Zool.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh.
  • Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle.
  • Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the h[ae]moglobin of the red blood corpuscles; h[ae]matocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals.
  • Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 981/2 [deg] Fahr.
  • Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.
  • Blood money. See in the Vocabulary.
  • Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp.
  • Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; tox[ae]mia.
  • Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
  • Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent.
  • Blood spavin. See under Spavin.
  • Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary.
  • Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family.
  • Flesh and blood. (a) A blood relation, esp. a child. (b) Human nature.
  • In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor. --Shak.
  • To let blood. See under Let.
  • Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Flesh and blood'

From: GCIDE
  • Flesh \Flesh\ (fl[e^]sh), n. [OE. flesch, flesc, AS. fl[=ae]sc; akin to OFries. fl[=a]sk, D. vleesch, OS. fl[=e]sk, OHG. fleisc, G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard, bacon, pork, Sw. fl[aum]sk.]
  • 1. The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In composition it is mainly proteinaceous, but contains in adition a large number of low-molecular-weight subtances, such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin, carnin, etc. It is also rich in potassium phosphate. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. [1913 Webster]
  • With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person. [1913 Webster]
  • As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass impregnable. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The human eace; mankind; humanity. [1913 Webster]
  • All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. --Gen. vi. 12. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Human nature: (a) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Kindred; stock; race. [1913 Webster]
  • He is our brother and our flesh. --Gen. xxxvii. 27. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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 (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'flesh and blood'

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