fleak

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small, light piece that is only loosely joined to something else, and which has a tendency to detach.

   “Above that Region the Wind blew at South-weſt by South, as appeared by ſome ſmall Fleaks of Clouds coming from that Quarter.”

2. isim A thin piece that is chipped or peeled off from the surface of something else.
3. isim A thin piece that the flesh of some animals (such as fish) tends to break into.

   “Upon Examination, I found that they [the fat] conſiſted of regular large Laminæ: vvhich vvere eaſily ſeparable from one another, in broad Fleaks; […]”

4. fiil Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”).

   “[M]any of them made use of flint for knives, […] this flint is of no regular form, and if they can only obtain a part of it, an inch or two in length that will cut they are satisfyed, they renew the edge by fleaking off the flint by means of the point of an Elk's or deer's horn.”

5. fiil Synonym of fleck.

   “[Edward] Young's Satires have been quite eclipsed by the fame of his Night Thoughts; a work the sublimity and dark splendour of which is fleaked with the wit and fancy which were essential constituents of his mind.”