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Flayed

Flay \Flay\ (fl[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flayed (fl[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Flaying.] [OE. flean, flan, AS. fle['a]n; akin to D. vlaen, Icel. fl[=a], Sw. fl[*a], Dan. flaae, cf. Lith. pleszti to tear, plyszti, v.i., to burst, tear; perh. akin to E. flag a flat stone, flaw.] 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.

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flayed

vb. (en-past of: flay)

Usage examples of "flayed".

Sure enough, they showed he was bringing in flayed human skin substitute produced by the law of similarity, as certified by some high sorcerer down in Tenochtitlan, the point of origin of the stuff.

My stomach did a slow flipflop when I saw one nearly written item on their dumping manifesto: flayed human skin substitute.

Yes, I'm afraid that means what you think it does: the substitute material gains its effectiveness by touching a real flayed human skin, one hidden away since the days when such sacrifices were not only legal but required.

Properly manufactured flayed skin substitute isn't illegal, but it is one of the things we like to keep an eye on.

Her face twisted as she read from the ground glass: The microimps are reporting human blood and flayed human skin, all right.

My stomach twisted when I thought about the flayed human skin in the potion Cuauhtemoc Hernandez had sold to Lupe Cordero.

Instead, he performed another indirect test, this one using flayed human skin substitute.

Whether it could be successfully removed from the flayed human skin substitute and implanted in the veins of someone who had suffered a loss from injury or vampirism… Truth to tell, I do not know.

For one dreadful second I feared he was going to scribble on the piece of flayed human skin substitute.

He even tested with flayed human skin substitute for Huitzliopochtlism.

But even you won't deny flayed human skin substitute is a dangerous substance, I hope?

I'd have liked to stay and snoop some more, but after Michael failed to find any trace of Huitzilopochtlic influence on the flayed human skin substitute, I didn't see how I could.

My stomach did a slow flipflop when I saw one neatly written item on their dumping manifesto: flayed human skin substitute.

There are also rumors that some of the flayed skin substi tute isn't created through the law of similarity, but rather through the law of contagion.

Yes, I'm afraid that means what you think it does: the substitute material gains its effec tiveness by touching a real flayed human skin, one hidden away since the days when such sacrifices were not only legal but required.