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Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.

One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive. Shak.

The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure. Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. Matt. xxiv. 20. Fain by flight to save themselves. Shak.

Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

o move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. A shadow flits before me. Tennyson.

ms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward. Knight. -- Floating heart (Bot.), a small aquatic plant (Limnanthemum lacunosum) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water of American ponds. -- Floating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floatin…

The plant love-lies-bleeding. [Obs.] Prior.

A fleet; especially, a

To fleet; to skim. [Obs.] Tusser.

A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

are men, That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. Tennyson. The redwing flutes his o-ka-lee. Emerson.

To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee. Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. Milton. Whither shall I fly to escape their hands Shak.

to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.

lves. Jer. Taylor. The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God. Bp. Stillingfleet.

t; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.

To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. For which his horse fearé gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. Chaucer.

. -- Fox shark (Zoöl.), the thrasher shark. See Thrasher shark, under Thrasher. -- Fox sleep, pretended sleep. -- Fox sparrow (Zoöl.), a large American sparrow (Passerella iliaca); -- so called on account of its reddish color. -- Fox squirrel (Zoöl.), a large North American squirrel (Sciurus niger, or S. cinereus).…

. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

o spit, vent, or eject, as froth. He . . . froths treason at his mouth. Dryden. Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more Tennyson.