Sc. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of coaxing or wheedling; also, a coaxing or wheedling speech.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, Agatha, 66.
| Bot tuk bath ewine in a lyne, | |
| þar harsknes & þare fleching. |
c. 1475. Rauf Coilȝear, 902. Now faindis to haue fauour with thy fleichingis.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 522.
| The plesand langage and the countenance, | |
| The fair flesching, with all the circumstance. |
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, let. xii. ‘Hout wi’ your fleeching,’ said Dame Martin.
1892. Northumbld. Gloss., Aa wadna gan ti church wi’ him for a’ his fleechin.
