Flank
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.
(2): ( n.) The side of any building.
(3): ( n.) The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.
(4): ( n.) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.
(5): ( n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
(6): ( v. i.) To border; to touch.
(7): ( v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.
(8): ( v. t.) To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.
(9): ( v. i.) To be posted on the side.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
כֶּסֶל , Kesel, the Loin of an animal (Job 14:27, where fatness is noted as a sign of self-pampering); elsewhere in the plur. for the internal muscles of the loins near the kidneys, to which the fat adheres, Gr. Ψόαι ( Leviticus 3:4; Leviticus 3:10; Leviticus 3:15; Leviticus 4:9; Leviticus 7:4); hence the viscera in general, umetaphorically for the inmost feelings C" loins," Psalms 38:8). (See Reins).
