(obsolete) Of cattle: having lean, dark, muscular flesh.
It is probable they had stuck more to the lyery, black-beefed Dutch breed, than their more northern neighbours, at that unfortunate period when these were imported from the Continent […]
In Lincolnshire, which is the furthest south that we meet with any number of this kind of cattle, they are, in general, more subject to lyery, or black flesh, than those bred further north; […]