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One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.

ith so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet

rovinces . . . ordered public prayer to God, when they feared that the French and English fleets would make a descent upon their coasts. Jortin.

ecial object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.

That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments. Bancroft.

byrinth. Clarendon. A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures. Bp. Stillingfleet.

blance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images. Stillingfleet.

ke. Distinguishing pennant (Naut.), a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet is recognized and signaled. Simmonds.

nity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo. To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder. Macaulay.

by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. Thus reënforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way. Dryden.

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. Bp. Stillingfleet.

An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or Encyc. Dict. Echelon lens (Optics), a large lens constructed in several parts or layers, extending in a succession of annular rings beyond the central lens; - - used in lighthouses.

Ecstatic. Bp. Stillingfleet.

My lady's eldest son." Shak. Their eldest historians are of suspected credit. Bp. Stillingfleet. Eldest hand (Card Playing), the player on the dealer's left hand. R. A. Proctor.

To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.

dow a wife; to endow a public institution. Endowing hospitals and almshouses. Bp. Stillingfleet.

c.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.