transitive. To strip or pull off the skin or hide of; to skin. with object a person: often in to flay alive (or †quick).

transitive. To flay, strip.

transitive. To flay, skin.

transitive. To strip off (skin or bark), to flay. Also figurative.

transitive. To skin, flay. In quot. 1546 figurative.

transitive. To remove the skin from (an animal or occasionally a person); (also) to peel or pare off the skin of (a vegetable or piece of fruit)…

transitive. To remove the skin from (an animal) by making a single slit along the hind legs and removing it whole. Also: to remove (the skin) in…

transitive. To skin or flay (an animal or person). Obsolete.

transitive. To divest of skin; to flay. Also figurative.

(?) To blanch = to strip off the skin. Obsolete.

transitive. To pull off the skin or hide from (a person or animal); to flay. Obsolete.

transitive. To flay, excoriate.

transitive. To remove the hide from; to flay. rare.

transitive. To strip off (the skin, etc.); to peel, flay. Also, †to flipe off. Obsolete exc. dialect.