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FLAY
flay
(verb) strip the skin off
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
flay (third-person singular simple present flays, present participle flaying, simple past and past participle flayed)
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To frighten; scare; terrify.
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be fear-stricken.
Noun
flay (plural flays)
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A fright; a scare.
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.
Etymology 2
Verb
flay (third-person singular simple present flays, present participle flaying, simple past flayed, past participle (obsolete) flain or flayed)
to strip skin off
to lash
Synonyms
• (remove the skin of): fleece, flense, skin
Anagrams
• Alfy
Proper noun
Flay (plural er-noun or Flays)
A surname.
Anagrams
• Alfy
Source: Wiktionary
Flay, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flaying.] Etym: [OE. flean, flan, AS. fleán; akin to D. vlaen, Icel. fla, Sw. flå, Dan. flaae, cf. Lith. ples to tear, plyszti, v.i., to burst tear; perh. akin to E. flag to flat stone, flaw.]
Definition: To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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