fleshing

Verb

flesh (third-person singular simple present fleshes, present participle fleshing, simple past and past participle fleshed)

1. (transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
   • Before they had fleshed the hounds, however, he recollected himself […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
2. (transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
   • Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.1933, Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
3. (obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
   • And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 7, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
4. (transitive) To glut.
5. (transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
6. To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

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