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n words to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our enemies. Bp. Stilingfleet. And to be dull was construed to be good. Pope.

the other side. "They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary." Bp. Stillingfleet.

y. The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Bp. Stillingfleet.

n, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.

A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.

state of being corporeal; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.

A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.

Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry. [R.] Bp. Fleetwood.

such prayers as these, if they had not been agreeable to the Roman customs. Bp. Stillingfleet.

keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security. A fleet of thirty ships for the custody of the narrow seas. Bacon.

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

th 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

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

cial 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.

Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea. M. Arnold.

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

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

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