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A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

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

A 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.

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.

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool; esp.:

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.