Word Meanings - FLESHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

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• BLOCKISH
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.
• BUTCHERING
  1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.
• BLOCKING
  1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily.
• HANDLING
  The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt. (more info) 1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you
• BUTCHER'S BROOM
  A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• BLOCK TIN
  See TIN
• CONVEXED
  Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.
• EDGELESS
  Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
• SCRAPING
  1. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper. 2. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
• BLOCK SIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.
• CONVEXEDNESS
  Convexity.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• FLESHHOOD
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
• CONVEX
  Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a
• BUTCHERLY
  Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• HANDLESS
  Without a hand. Shak.
• BLUNTLY
  In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility. Sometimes after bluntly giving his opinions, he would quietly lay himself asleep until the end of their deliberations. Jeffrey.
• BLOCKAGE
  The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• LEDGEMENT
  See LEDGMENT
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• WEDGY
  Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.