flense

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Verb 1.3 References

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Danish flense or Dutch vlensen.^[1]

[edit] Verb

to flense (third-person singular simple present flenses, present participle flensing, simple past and past participle flensed)

1. To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
   • 2004, Stephen R. Donaldson, The Runes of the Earth, page 5 ISBN 0-399-15232-6

     "For that reason, among others, he would never evince the particular guantness, the cut and flagrant sense of purpose - all compromise and capacity for surrender flensed away - which had made Thomas Covenant ir-refusable to her."

   • 2001, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion, page 191 ISBN 0-380-97901-2

     "His eyes sprang open. Umegat stared straight at him for the fraction of a second, and Cazaril felt flensed."

   • 2008, Ian C. Esselemont, Return of the Crimson Guard, page 569 ISBN 978059305809

     "It engulfed screaming soldiers who dissapeared before his eyes, their flesh, armor, even bone, flensed into a suspended mist that was heading straight for them."

[edit] References

• flense in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913