unˈflesh, v.
[un-2 4.]
trans. To strip of flesh. Hence unˈfleshing vbl. n.
| 1598 Florio, Scarnare, to vnflesh, to pare the flesh from the bones. 1611 Ibid., Scarnatura, any vnfleshing. 1683 E. Hooker Pordage's Mystic Div. Pref. 25 When the inexorable Messenger..shal come..and uncloath and unflesh him too. 1894 Baring-Gould Deserts S. France I. 190 A body had been deliberately unfleshed before it was laid in its last habitation. |