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Webster 1913 Edition

Flense

Flense

,

Verb.

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).