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A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

musement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood.

its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.

To drive or scare off by some exclamation. [R.] "Whiskered cats arointed flee." Mrs. Browning.

y sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. Holland. There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich. Macaulay.

To assassinate. [Obs.] Stillingfleet.

een. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance. -- Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; -- opposed to fore and aft.

d.). [Colloq.] -- To see the back of, to get rid of. -- To turn the back, to go away; to flee. -- To turn the back on one, to forsake or neglect him.

Sir W. Scott. -- To bear down upon (Naut.), to approach from the windward side; as, the fleet bore down upon the enemy. -- To bear in with (Naut.), to run or tend toward; as, a ship bears in with the land. -- To bear off (Naut.), to steer away, as from land. -- To bear up. (a) To be supported; to have fortitude; t…

To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.

ld (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. The bleat of fleecy sheep. Chapman's Homer.

he controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet.

cies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.

in a blundering manner; to confuse. He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet.

o throw shells, hot shot, etc., at or into. Next, she means to bombard Naples. Burke. His fleet bombarded and burnt down Dieppe. Wood.