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r the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke. The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume.

l that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.

fording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity. Bp. Fleetwood. "Evidential tracks." Earle.. -- Ev`i*den"tial*ly, adv.

A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

in (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet.

e off; to discard. [R.] To excuss the notation of a Geity out of their minds. Bp. Stillingfleet.

imit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country. They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia. Arbuthnot.

core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.

act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind. Bp. Stillingfleet.

tached to the flagship, as aids to the flag officer. -- Flag officer, the commander of a fleet or squadron; an admiral, or commodore. -- Flag of truse, a white flag carried or displayed to an enemy, as an invitation to conference, or for the purpose of making some communication not hostile. -- Flag share, the flag o…

The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.

Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. A shadow flits before me. Tennyson.

A fleet; especially, a

To fleet; to skim. [Obs.] Tusser.

A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.

elves. Jer. Taylor. The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God. Bp. Stillingfleet.

rt; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.