fleam

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The fleam should be banished from among the instruments of the veterinary surgeon A ligature being passed round the lower part of the neck, and the head being held up a little on one side, the vein will protrude on either side of the windpipe.

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  1. In surgery and farriery, a sharp instrument for lancing the gums or for opening veins in bloodletting; a lancet; in the most restricted sense, a form of spring-lancet. He liked horses well enough, but preferred their hides to their hoofs; and became more skilful with the fleam than the butteris. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 11.
  2. In heraldry, a bearing thought by some to represent the farriers' lancet, but more probably a builders' cramp of iron, whence often called crampon.
  3. Same as phlegm. Alas, I am too honest for this age, Too full of fleame and heavy steddinesse. Marston and Webster, Malcontent, ii. 5. Fleam hath the predominancy in his [the Sultan's] complexion. Sandys, Travailes, p. 57.
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  • And but for carrying a knife, or a horse-fleam, or a gun-flint, we had no more use for a pocket than a Highlander has for a knee-buckle. —  The Life of General Francis Marion
  • * Tutbury Hydro Electric Project (THEP), River Dove, on the Staffordshire/Derbyshire border, which aims to reinstate the mill fleam (a man-made water course running alongside the park) and install a micro hydro electric plan.
  • The fleam should be banished from among the instruments of the veterinary surgeon A ligature being passed round the lower part of the neck, and the head being held up a little on one side, the vein will protrude on either side of the windpipe. —  The Dog
  • The horse-shoe of Loggun (Denham and Clapperton), the Fсn fleam, the "small piece of iron like an ace of spades on the upper Nile" (Baker), and the iron money of the brachycephalic Nyam-nyams described and drawn by Schwein furth (i. —  Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
  • The article I chiefly accused myself of forgetting was a stout English clasp-knife, with a large handle, a blade like an "Arkansas toothpick," and possessing the other useful appliances of picker, fleam, tweezers, lancet, and punch. —  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah ; Meccah — Volume 1
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  1. Early modern English and dial. also flem; from Old French flieme, French flamme = Provencal flecme = Spanish fleme = Portuguese flame = Italian dial. fiama = Dutch vlijm = Old High German fliotuma, Middle High German vlieten, vliete, German fliete = Danish flitte, a fleam (G. also flame, from French flamme), from Late Latin flebotomus, phlebotomus, from Greek φλεβοτόμον, a lancet, from φλέψ (φλεβ-), vein, + τέμνειν, cut: see phlebotomy. W. fflaim is from English
  2. Also flem, flegm, flegme; from Old French flemme, French flegme, from Middle Latin phlegma, flegma, from Greek φλέλμα, phlegm: see phlegm, the present spelling.
  3. from Middle English fleme, flume, from Old French flem, flum, flun, etc., from Latin flumen, river: see flume.
 

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