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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

                Nor much expect A foe so proud will first the
                weaker seek.                      --Milton.

                O death, made proud with pure and princely
                beauty !                          --Shak.

                And shades impervious to the proud world's
                glare.                            --Keble.
      (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.

                Are we proud men proud of being proud ?
                                                  --Thackeray.

   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.

            Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are
            mantled with a golden cloud.          --Keble.

   3. Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the
      females of some animals. --Sir T. Browne.

   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.

   {Proud flesh} (Med.), a fungous growth or excrescence of
      granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer.

, 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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

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