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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

flamme

, OF.

flieme

, fr. LL.

flevotomum

phlebotomum

; cf. D.

vlijm

. See

(Surg. & Far.)

A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet.

Fleam tooth

a tooth of a saw shaped like an isosceles triangle; a peg tooth.

Knight.

, n.

In surgery and farriery, a sharp instrument used for opening veins for letting blood.