v. [UN-2 4.] trans. To strip of flesh. Hence Unfleshing vbl. sb.
1598. Florio, Scarnare, to vnflesh, to pare the flesh from the bones. Ibid. (1611), Scarnatura, any vnfleshing.
1683. E. Hooker, Pordage’s Mystic Div., Pref. 25. When the inexorable Messenger … shal come … and uncloath and unflesh him too.
1894. Baring-Gould, Deserts S. France, I. 190. A body had been deliberately unfleshed before it was laid in its last habitation.
