FPage 175
- English Word Fleer Definition To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
- English Word Fleer Definition To mock; to flout at.
- English Word Fleered Definition of Fleer
- English Word Fleerer Definition One who fleers.
- English Word Fleering Definition of Fleer
- English Word Fleeringly Definition In a fleering manner.
- English Word Fleet Definition To sail; to float.
- English Word Fleet Definition To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
- English Word Fleet Definition To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
- English Word Fleet Definition To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
- English Word Fleet Definition To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
- English Word Fleet Definition To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
- English Word Fleet Definition To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- English Word Fleet Definition Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
- English Word Fleet Definition Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
- English Word Fleet Definition A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- English Word Fleet Definition A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
- English Word Fleet Definition A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
- English Word Fleet Definition To take the cream from; to skim.
- English Word Fleet-foot Definition Swift of foot.