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The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Farrow.

To become choked, stifled, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.

ers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage. But feathered soon and fledge They summed their pens [wings]. Milton. Summing up, a compendium or abridgment; a recapitulation; a résumé; a summary.

To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound. And his ears tinkled, and the color fled. Dryden.

on an imaginary throne. Pope. Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled. Doddridge.

To cease from being ruffled or agitated. Dryden.

h vanity had filled the works of men. Milton. Think not, when woman's transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dead; Succeeding vanities she still regards. Pope.

or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names. Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled. Tennyson. Weald clay (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden.

en cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.

A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.

yments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men. With his soul fled all my worldly solace. Shak.