Search for: flesh foods
1201 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GOAT.1 (Noah Webster)
… coarse food. The milk of the goat is sweet, nourishing and medicinal, and the flesh furnishes provisions to the inhabitants of countries where they abound …
1202 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HARE.1 (Noah Webster)
HARE, n. A quadruped of the genus Lepus, with long ears, a short tail, soft hair, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, often hunted for sport or for its flesh, which is excellent food. It moves by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.
1203 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HYENA.1 (Noah Webster)
… on flesh; it preys on flocks and herds, and will open graves to obtain food. It is a fierce, cruel and untamable animal, and is sometimes called the tiger-wolf.
1204 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEAT.6 (Noah Webster)
2. The flesh of animals used as food. This is now the more usual sense of the word. The meat of carnivorous animals is tough, coarse and ill flavored. The meat of herbivorous animals is generally palatable.
1205 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MUTTON.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The flesh of sheep, raw or dressed for food.
1206 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PHEASANT.1 (Noah Webster)
PHEASANT, n. phez’ant. [L. phasianus.] A fowl of the genus Phasianus, of beautiful plumage, and its flesh delicate food.
1207 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PORK.1 (Noah Webster)
PORK, n. [L. porcus, a hog or pig; porca, a ridge; or from his snout and rooting.] The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.
1208 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PORRIDGE-POT.1 (Noah Webster)
PORRIDGE-POT, n. The pot in which flesh, or flesh and vegetables are boiled for food.
1209 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RACOON.1 (Noah Webster)
… its flesh is palatable food. It inhabits North America from Canada to the tropics.
1210 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECRUIT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To repair by fresh supplies any thing wasted. We say, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
1211 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEETHE.1 (Noah Webster)
SEETHE, v.t. pret. seethed, sod; pp. seethed, sodden. [Heb. to seethe, to boil, to swell, to be inflated.] To boil; to decoct or prepare for food in hot liquor; as, to seethe flesh.
1212 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOUP.1 (Noah Webster)
SOUP, n. [See Sup and Sop.] Broth; a decoction of flesh for food.
1213 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SQUIRREL.1 (Noah Webster)
… . Their flesh is delicate food.
1214 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STURGEON.1 (Noah Webster)
STURGEON, n. [Low L., G.] A large fish of the genus Acipenser, caught in large rivers. Its flesh is valued for food.
1215 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TURKEY.1 (Noah Webster)
… its flesh furnishes most delicious food. Wild turkies abound in the forests of America, and domestic turkies are bred in other countries, as well as in America …
1216 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VICTUALS.2 (Noah Webster)
… to food for men when cooked or prepared for the table. We do not now give this name to flesh, corn or flour, in a crude state; but we say, the victuals are well cooked …
1217 Angel Over Her Tent, p. 123.3 (D. A. Delafield)
… eating flesh.
1218 Over My Shoulder, p. 37.1 (Ella May White Robinson)
… discard flesh foods entirely until suitable substitutes could be found. In harmony with that instruction, we occasionally stewed a savory joint in the …
1219 Sister White, p. 62.2 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)
… hog’s flesh was forbidden by the Bible, and he stopped eating that. It was not long until he gave up eating all meat. For a while he lived on only bread and water …
1220 There Shines A Light, p. 10.2 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)
… . The food of Elijah was meager, bread and flesh, and at the last bread alone; that of John the Baptist was locusts and wild honey. It is presumable that other prophets …