| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.[Websters] 2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: efflowering, efflowered, efflowers, efflowerer, efflowerers, effloweringly and effloweredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "EFFLOWER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Etymology:Efflower \Ef*flow"er\, transitive verb. [Compare to the French expression effleurer.]. (references) |
