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

ed the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule. Stillingfleet.

The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.

ault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. A captius and suspicious. Stillingfleet. I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to adbide the test of a captious controversy. Bwike.

nvey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide. Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet. Shak. He carried away all his cattle. Gen. xxxi. 18. Passion and revenge will carry them too far. Locke.

little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant. Bp. Stillingfleet.

aving an appearance of right or justice. "Colorable pretense for infidility." Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Col"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Col"or*a*bly, adv. Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice. Hooker.

o become public; to appear; to be published. "It is indeed come out at last." Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this affair come out he has come out well at last.

er, especially in a contest or controversy. "To prove it against all comers." Bp. Stillingfleet.

A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.

wn words to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our enemies. Bp. Stilingfleet. And to be dull was construed to be good. Pope.

n the other side. "They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary." Bp. Stillingfleet.

ty. The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Bp. Stillingfleet.

wn, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.

A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.

state of being corporeal; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.

A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.

Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry. [R.] Bp. Fleetwood.

n such prayers as these, if they had not been agreeable to the Roman customs. Bp. Stillingfleet.

A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. Bacon.