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In a fleet manner; rapidly.

Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.

deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.

Jet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. Wiseman.

Ichorous; thin; limpid. Wiseman.

Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.

intervention of another, or by writing or token. My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you. Shak.

One who greets or salutes another.

Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak.

pmate. The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. J. H. Newman.

Sweet as honey. Chaucer.

Not discreet; wanting in discretion. So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Shak.

A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court- leet; the day on which a court-leet is held. Shak.

One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.

Any one numerous species of small brush-tongued parrots or lories, found mostly in Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent islands, with some forms in the East Indies. They are arboreal in their habits and feed largely upon the honey of flowers. They belong to Trichoglossus, Loriculus, and several allied genera.…

One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.

A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.

The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.