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Definition of Fleam
1. n. A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet.
Definition of Fleam
1. Noun. A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fleam
1. a surgical instrument [n -S]
Medical Definition of Fleam
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleam
Literary usage of Fleam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"A fimple rule for finding the quantity of fleam required to raife a given weight
... Then to the temperature of the fleam add 900, and from the Aim take the ..."
2. Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Benjamin Rumford (1802)
"... and the vertical fide of the fleam-rim, to contain all the water that can be
forced upwards between them by the fleam, there is little danger of any ..."
3. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... recommends the fleam of warm water as a moft efficacious and fafe remedy for
... by mixing with the fleam on the fur- face of the water, be forced thro' ..."
4. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1804)
"And bolh the top and bottom of the larger cylinder or fleam ... Things being thus
arranged, when the engine is at work, fleam of high temperature is ..."
5. The Monthly Magazine by Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), Richard Phillips (1803)
"... or other apparatus« which fleam is produced, fo that a ci-m- bination of the
flame or heated air, ltd the (team generated, may pafs from tb« builer to ..."
6. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1847)
"HOT-FLUE is the name given in England to an apartment heated by stoves or fleam
pipes, in which padded and printed calicoes are dried hard. .Fig. ..."
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