(a) Composed of flesh; ~ and blodi, of flesh and blood; ~ habit (shroud), the body; ~ member, an organ or a limb composed of flesh; ~ place, a fleshy portion of the body; ~ herte, the physical heart; fig. a heart with human feelings; ~ fode, ?flesh food, meat; ?physical food; (b) covered with flesh, plump (as opposed to lean); also, resembling flesh, fleshlike [quot.: 1440].

(a) Of or pertaining to the human body, affecting or concerned with the body, physical (as opposed to spiritual); also, worldly, temporal; of a vital principle [i.e. spiritus animalis]: concerned with bodily functions and perceptions; ~ godes (thinges), things necessary to bodily well-being, desirable things of this world; ~ service, temporal service, material benefit; ~ wit, a physical sense, one of the five senses; (b) of kinship: physical (as opposed to spiritual); ~ kinnesman, a blood relative; ~ brother; ~ cosin; ~ fader; ~ moder; ~ sib; etc.

(a) Belonging to man's physical nature; dominated by physical needs or desires, originating in the bodily appetites, carnal; ~ affeccioun, physical love, earthly affection; ~ appetit (desir, iwilning, lust, wil, yerning); ~ delice, ~ liking, physical pleasure or desire; ~ love, earthly love; filial affection; ~ sin, a sin induced through the bodily senses, a sin caused by physical appetites; ~ temptacioun (fonding), a sensual temptation; (b) earthly, temporal, worldly; ~ folk (peple), worldly people, people in lay or secular life; ~ frend, earthly friend; ~ frendship, ?earthly friends, ?friendship of worldly people; ~ lif, earthly life, lay or secular life; ~ lore, worldly knowledge, non-spiritual teaching; ~ wit, worldly meaning, non-spiritual sense or interpretation; (c) sexual, carnal; ~ communing, ~ ded, ~ felaured, ~ knouing, ~ knoulech, sexual intercourse; ~ dette, the obligation to have sexual intercourse with one's spouse; ~ filth, defilement of the flesh, sexual intercourse; ~ generacioun, ~ progeniture, physical procreation; ~ lust (desir, love), sexual desire or passion, love between man and woman; ~ sin, fornication, adultery, etc.; ~ temptacioun (fonding), temptation to sexual sin.