fleams

Their money is composed of Ikíá, dwarf bars shaped like horse-fleams, a coinage familiar to old travellers in West Africa, and of this Spartan currency a bundle of ten represents sixpence.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Their money is composed of Ikíá, dwarf bars shaped like horse-fleams, a coinage familiar to old travellers in West Africa, and of this

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

Finding, after much deliberation, that the poor animal, which they kicked and cudgelled to excess could not change the laws of nature, or afford them that which she did not possess, it was determined by her proprietor, that as she failed in supplying them with sufficient milk they should try the fleams, and have recourse to her blood, in order to eke out their support.

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

"I will speak to him," said Raoul, forgetting his lameness, and springing from his elevated station -- "I will speak to him; and if he be unwell, I have my lancets and fleams to bleed man as well as brute."

The Betrothed Walter Scott 1801

Till grateful fleams fhall tempt thee to recein Thy'carly meal, or thy officious maidi.

Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ... 1791

After having left this horrid view, confifting only ia the barren valley and fleams of fmoke, the country in returning to Pozzuoli made amends.

Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany in the Years 1759, 1760, and ... 1785

Spars are alfo another indication of me - tals; they abound near kad and copper, ac - company moft other metals, and are oftes tinged with the fleams of the metals.

A General History of Ireland, in Its Antient and Modern State 1781

Particular The fcalded bran fliould be put hot ones. into the manger, for the fleams conduce not a little to promote a running at the nofe, which is often very plentiful, and greatly

The gentleman's farriery : or, a practical treatise on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on the subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glandered horses is particularly considered and improved : Also a new method of nicking horses is recommended; with a copper-plate and description of the machine ... 1770

a wife (and a good wife she was to me), and painted me all over in patterns, as you see; and because I had some knowledge of surgery and blood-letting, and my fleams in my pocket, which were worth to me a fortune, I rose to great honor among them, though they taught me more of simples than ever I taught them of surgery.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

a corpse under her lifeless carcase -- the last drop of her blood having been expended under the final operation of the fleams.

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831