Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a
coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl.
Fleet"-foot` (?), a. Swift of foot. Shak.
Fleet"ing, a. Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory;
as, the fleeting hours or moments.
Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.
Fleet"ing*ly, adv. In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
Fleet"ings (?), n. pl. A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.
[prov. Eng.] Wright.
Fleet"ly, adv. In a fleet manner; rapidly.
Fleet"ness, n. Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the
fleetness of a horse or of time.
Fleigh (?), obs. imp. of Fly. Chaucer.
Fleme (?), v. t. [AS. flman, flman.] To banish; to drive out; to expel.
[Obs.] "Appetite flemeth discretion." Chaucer.
Flem"er (?), n. One who, or that which, banishes or expels. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Flem"ing (?), n. A native or inhabitant of Flanders.
Flem"ish (?), a. Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings. -- n. The
language or dialect spoken by the Flemings; also, collectively, the
people of Flanders.
Flemish accounts (Naut.), short or deficient accounts. [Humorous] Ham.
Nav. Encyc. -- Flemish beauty (Bot.), a well known pear. It is one of
few kinds which have a red color on one side. -- Flemish bond. (Arch.)
See Bond, n., 8. -- Flemish brick, a hard yellow paving brick. --
Flemish coil, a flat coil of rope with the end in the center and the
turns lying against, without riding over, each other. -- Flemish eye
(Naut.), an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and
lying them over each other. -- Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional
footrope at the end of a yard.
Flench (?), v. t. Same as Flence.
Flense (?), v. t. [Cf. Dan. flense, D. vlensen, vlenzen, Scot. flinch.]
To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
the flensed carcass of a fur seal.
U. S. Census (1880).
Flesh (?), n. [OE. flesch, flesc, AS. fl&?;sc; akin to OFries. flsk, D.
vleesch, OS. fl&?;sk, OHG. fleisc, G. fleisch, Icel. & Dan. flesk lard,
bacon, pork, Sw. fl‰sk.] 1. The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and
other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other
animals; especially, the muscles.
In composition it is mainly albuminous, but contains in adition a large
number of crystalline bodies, such as creatin, xanthin, hypoxanthin,
carnin, etc. It is also rich in phosphate of potash.
2. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the
body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.
Chaucer.
3. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal
person.
As if this flesh, which walls about our life, Were brass
impregnable.
Shak.