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A girl; a maiden. [Anglo-Irish]

A stream; (Geol.)

held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.

One who heals disease of cows; a cow doctor.

Healing the distemper of cows.

One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

Pretended sleep. Addison.

In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.

lating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.

Same as Engouled.

The full profits or products which ground or land yields, as the hay of the meadows, the feed of the pasture, the grain of arable fields, the rents, services, and the like. Cowell.

ted, making the verb transitive. [He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke. Shak. Flee fornication. 1 Cor. vi. 18. So fled his enemies my warlike father. Shak.

n from a sheep, or animal, at one time. Who shore me Like a tame wether, all my precious fleece. Milton.

Furnished with a fleece; as, a sheep is well fleeced. Spenser.

Without a fleece.

One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne.

Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece. "Fleecy flocks." Prior.

Obs. pl. of Flea. Chaucer.

One who flees. Ld. Berners.

One who fleers. Beau. & Fl.