proud flesh

proud flesh
    n 1: the swollen tissue around a healing wound or ulcer
    

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.
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   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.
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   2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat;
      especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as
      distinguished from {fish}.
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            With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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   3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the
      corporeal person.
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            As if this flesh, which walls about our life,
            Were brass impregnable.               --Shak.
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   4. The human eace; mankind; humanity.
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            All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
                                                  --Gen. vi. 12.
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   5. Human nature:
      (a) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
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                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.
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   6. Kindred; stock; race.
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            He is our brother and our flesh.      --Gen. xxxvii.
                                                  27.
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   7. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a
      root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
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   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.
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   {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.
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Proud \Proud\, a. [Compar. {Prouder}; superl. {Proudest}.] [OE.
   proud, prout, prud, prut, AS. pr[=u]t; akin to Icel.
   pr[=u][eth]r stately, handsome, Dan. prud handsome. Cf.
   {Pride}.]
   1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as:
      (a) Possessing or showing too great self-esteem;
          overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant;
          haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
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                Nor much expect
                A foe so proud will first the weaker seek.
                                                  --Milton.
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                O death, made proud with pure and princely
                beauty !                          --Shak.
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                And shades impervious to the proud world's
                glare.                            --Keble.
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      (b) Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem;
          exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of
          one's country. "Proud to be checked and soothed."
          --Keble.
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                Are we proud men proud of being proud ?
                                                  --Thackeray.
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   2. Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation;
      worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent;
      admirable; ostentatious. "Of shadow proud." --Chapman.
      "Proud titles." --Shak. " The proud temple's height."
      --Dryden.
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            Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud
            Are mantled with a golden cloud.      --Keble.
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   3. Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the
      females of some animals. --Sir T. Browne.
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   Note: Proud is often used with participles in the formation
         of compounds which, for the most part, are
         self-explaining; as, proud-crested, proud-minded,
         proud-swelling.
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   {Proud flesh} (Med.), a fungous growth or excrescence of
      granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer.
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