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To float; to swim. [Obs.] "Whether I sink or flete." Chaucer.

Confined to a hamlet. Feltham.

A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [Colloq.] All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. Dickens. .

A homilist.

Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective. A most imperfect and incomplete divine. Milton.

In an incomplete manner.

The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness. Boyle.

One who drives mules.

No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances.

In an obsolete manner.

The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.

Filled; crowded. [Obs.] Johnson.

To write or publish pamphlets. By pamphleteering we shall not win. C. Kingsley.

e Holy Spirit. From which intercession especially I conceive he hath the name of the Paraclete given him by Christ. Bp. Pearson.

Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets. [R.] "This pelleted storm." Shak.

To plead. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.

A division of birds including the sand grouse. They are in some respects intermediate between the pigeons and true grouse. Called also Pteroclomorphæ.

Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding. "His words replete with guile." Milton. When he of wine was replet at his feast. Chaucer. In heads repiete with thoughts of other men. Cowper.

The state of being replete.