† eat-fleshn.Obsolete transl. Latin sarcophagus, Greek σαρκοϕάγος the name of a kind of stone which had the property of consuming the flesh of corpses laid in it (see sarcophagusn.).
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1632 R. SherwoodDict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) An eate-flesh, sarcophago.