(a) A flea; (b) flen, flies, and freres, fleas, flies, and friars; fle in ere, exciting story or report. …

(a) To strip the skin from (a person, a part of someone's body); also, to tear the skin to shreds (by blows, scourging, etc.); to strip (the skin from the flesh); flen of, to flay off (the skin); flen……

(a) A flake of snow; (b) a piece of sod, a turf; also, a turfy place, greensward [quot.Pearl]; (c) ?a fibrous slab, a bundle (of straw). …