bred in the bone will come out in the flesh, what's Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... in the bone will come out in the flesh, what's lifelong habits or inherited characteristics cannot be concealed (a similar idea is conveyed by blood of Chancery ). The saying is recorded from the late 15th century, and in earlier usage often contained a negative (as in John Heywood's Dialogue of Proverbs ( 1546 ), ‘It will not out of the fleshe, that's bred in the bone’, which altered the form and...
What’s BRED in the bone will come out in the flesh Quick reference
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (6 ed.)
...agone, It will not out of the fleshe, thats bred in the bone. 1603 j. florio tr. Montaigne’s Essays III. xiii. They are effects of custome and vse: and what is bred in the bone will never out of the flesh. 1832 j. p. kennedy Swallow Barn III. v. What is bred in the bone—you know the proverb. a 1957 l. i. wilder First Four Years ( 1971 ) iv. We’ll always be farmers, for what is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh. 1981 b. healey Last Ferry iv. There’s bad blood there.…What’s bred in the bone comes out in the flesh. ■ family...
bred in the bone will come out in the flesh, what's
Bred in the bone Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... in the bone Inherent; part of one’s nature. ‘What’s bred in the bone will come out in the flesh’: a natural propensity cannot be...
Hunting Spirituality and Animism Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
...active players in wildness – those of us who clearly have not forgotten how we once were, how we are meant to be – are defiled by industrial culture as “tree-huggers, environmental elitists, and troublemakers” in the first instance, “anachronisms, barbarians, and heretics” in the latter. For my part, so be it. “To embrace the mass religions or ideologies of the present,” advises Wyoming meat hunter and poet C. L. Rawlins , “we must first deny what we know in our very bones: how the world works” (Rawlins in Petersen 1996 ). And how the world works is...
Tarpons, Bonefishes, and Eels Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Underwater Life
...teeth. The scale pattern is like that of the Snub-nosed parasitic eel, and several species have a characteristic nick in the ventral outline of the body just below the pectoral fin. The genus Haptenchelys is the odd one out in this subfamily because it lacks scales. The distribution of these eels is worldwide and all come from waters that are 400m to 2,000m deep (1,300–6,600ft). The adults are bottom dwellers and the larvae have telescopic eyes, but beyond that, little is known about their life history. The third species in this assemblage (the Snubnose...
Reptiles Reference library
The New Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians (2 ed.)
...and patterns on different parts of the head and body are of great value in reptilian classification, especially in distinguishing between different species. Periodically the keratinous layer of the epidermis is shed and replaced through the activity of the deeper layers of cells. The keratin may come away piecemeal or in large flakes. In snakes, however, it is often shed as a single slough that is peeled off inside-out after the snake has rubbed it through at the snout. In these reptiles the old keratin layer on the surface is not shed until a new one has...
Animal Husbandry Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
...adapt to the new niche—either because they will not submit to human dominance or cannot adapt to the new selective pressures—get culled out of the breeding population through natural or human-induced attrition. Some may even return to the wild; but those that have a selective advantage for survival in the cultural niche gain the best chance of passing on their characteristics to the next generation and ensuring the perpetuation of their genotype. As a rule, the success in subjugating a species and creating a successful domestic form has depended on the presence...
Fish, What is a? Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Underwater Life
...for example, the number of young farm-bred salmon that are born with foreshortened jaws and hence have difficulty in feeding and therefore a slow growth rate, is higher (at least, in some stocks) than in the wild. The examples given above show how valuable fish stocks are. Fish should not be just a short-term source of profit for a few, but a continuing self-renewing resource; and they would be if used properly. When herring were caught by drift nets, before the Second World War, there were over 1,600km (1,000 miles) of net out in the North Sea each...
Insects—Pests Reference library
Richard A. JONES
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
...down, and hair, or were carrion feeders, originally feeding on dried skin, sinew, bones, and cartilage left after the first flurry of flesh-eating fly maggots. One of the most notorious, the museum beetle, Anthrenus verbasci, a pest of (among other things) stuffed animals and insect collections in museums, is likely to have been a scavenger in the rough, untidy spiderwebs made under loose tree bark, feeding on the uneaten remains of the spider’s insect prey. The attacks of these pests have, to some extent, been reduced by modern technological...
Britain–Australia Reference library
Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
...audience in 1977 that they ‘not pay too much heed to stories about republicanism in Australia’. Fraser did much to dispel Britishness to the backblocks of Australian political culture. Putting flesh on the multicultural bones meant dismembering the old British corpse of ‘white Australia’ and ending what he termed the ‘days of Anglo-Saxon conformity’. Multiculturalism quickly and quietly relegated the British heritage to one of a number of cultures making up the rich tapestry of Australian society and culture. The celebration of the Bicentenary in 1988 ...
Jewish-American Fiction Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
...painful comedy. It comes as a surprise to realize that the major current of Jewish writing in America dates only from World War II. Irving Howe once compared the Jewish and the southern literary schools in a provocative comment: “In both instances,” he said, “a subculture finds its voice and its passion at exactly the moment it approaches disintegration.” But in what sense was Jewish life in America approaching disintegration in the first two decades after the war, when the best Jewish writers emerged? What was dying, quite simply, was the vibrant immigrant...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Reference library
Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy
...firm close of the lower lip now and then’. When Hardy first conceived Angel, though, the description went thus: ‘a tender voice, an eloquent pair of eyes, and a small mobile mouth of somewhat too delicate a cut for a man, though with a sufficiently humorous turn now and then’. The firm close of the lip and the fixed eyes belong to the man who embodies Victorian cultural rigidity, who abandons the other half of his perfect whole because the socio-religious law bred in the bone says he must, and because his internal logic sets love below the law: forgiveness...
Beetles Reference library
The New Encyclopedia of Insects and their Allies (3 ed.)
...reach right into a snail's shell as the animal retracts. The beetle secretes enzymes onto the snail's body, predigesting the tissues, which it then sucks out in liquid form. Dead plants and animals represent a rich source of valuable nutrients, and very few dead organisms fail to attract the attentions of a beetle. Dead trees attract a wide range of woodborers and bark beetles. Fresh corpses attract beetles in successive waves, each “guild” with its own specialization. Burying beetles are flesh feeders, while skin beetles will take on dry materials like...
Soups and Stews Reference library
Andrew F. Smith
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...had become one of the highest priced foods in America. This shortage led to the creation of turtle farms on which turtles were bred and raised for market. Turtle and mock turtle soup had gone out of fashion by the early twentieth century. Okra Soup and Gumbos. Okra ( Hibiscus esculentus ) originated in Africa. The word is thought to have derived from the West African nkru-ma. The slave trade brought okra to the Caribbean, where it was cultivated by 1707 . From the Caribbean, okra migrated north. Although okra could be prepared in many ways, early...
Small Cats Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Mammals (3 ed.)
... For most people the typical small cat is the familiar pet of millions of households around the world. Of the many wild species, some do indeed resemble their domestic brethren, both in looks and behavior. But not all members of the family are in fact small – the puma is actually bigger than some “big cats,” such as the leopard and the cheetah. An inability to roar (due to the hardening of the hyoid bone in the throat) has traditionally been used to distinguish the small cats from the big cats of the Panthera lineage (i.e. the lion, leopard, tiger,...
Mind Cure and Mental Therapeutics in the Late-19th-Century United States Reference library
David T. Schmit
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Modern Psychology
...worked ( Evans, 1869 ). In extensive sections of the Mental Cure , Evans draws correspondences and phrenopathic links between mental and emotional states and organ function while declaring that the free flow of a vital force to the organs of the body was essential for health ( Evans, 1869 ). For example, problems of motivation he linked to lung disease; stomach problems and chronic indigestion to a slow, overburdened-by-age memory ( Evans, 1869 ). Excessive fear bred asthma ( Evans, 1869 ). And in an idea that will be adopted by nearly all mental...
Native American Foods Reference library
Alice Ross, Alice Ross, and Alice Ross
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...busily engaged in cutting the meat off the bones and drying it on a little rod or stick over the fire to make what the Indians call Jerk—dried meat to carry with them. … One of the… Indians… attended… continually throughout the night to drying their meat, making Jerk of it so as to carry it with them. —Peter Henry, Accounts of His Captivity and Other Events (1780) [The tribes in his area] have no Salt among them, but for seasoning use the Ashes of Hiccory, Stickweed, or some other Wood or Plant, affording a Salt ash. —Robert Beverley, The History and...
Agricultural Innovation and Dispersal in Eastern North America Reference library
Kandace D. Hollenbach and Stephen B. Carmody
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Agriculture and the Environment
...in several plants are evident, indicating domestication. These include pepo gourds ( Cucurbita pepo subsp. ovifera ), which appear to have been bred for utilitarian (net floats, containers) as well as culinary (edible seeds, edible flesh) purposes, and sunflower ( Helianthus annuus var. macrocarpus ), with its large, oily seeds. The other domesticates fell out of use as crops not long after the arrival of European settlers in the region. Sumpweed ( Iva annua var. macrocarpa ), a relative of sunflower that also has an oily seed that increased in size...
arse n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...Fletcher Spanish Curate II i: The Dead do's well at all times, Yet Gouts will hang an arse a long time. 1623 Webster Devil's Law-Case V iv: The Welshman in's play, do what the Fencer could, Hung still an arse; he could not for's life Make him come on brauely. 1633 Massinger Guardian V iv: To the Offering, nay, No hanging an arse, this is their wedding day. 1665 Head Eng. Rogue I 128: She would have clasped me in her Arms; but I hung an arse, being sensible of the stinking condition that the fear had put me in. 1675 C. Cotton Scoffer...
