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fleming |
flemish |
flemish dialect |
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flench |
flense
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| flesh and blood
| flesh eater
| flesh eating
| flesh fly
flense
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb flense has 1 sense
- flense(v = verb.possession) - strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal); is one way to get rid of, remove
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CIDE DICTIONARY
flense, v. t. [Cf. Dan. flense, D. vlensen, vlenzen, Scot. flinch.].
To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. [1913 Webster]
"the flensed carcass of a fur seal."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
flense, v.tr. (also flench, flinch)
1 cut up (a whale or seal).
2 flay (a seal).
1 cut up (a whale or seal).
2 flay (a seal).
Etymology
Da. flense: cf. Norw. flinsa, flunsa flay
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