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Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.

The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship. Bp. Stillingfleet.

An incidental or passing thought or allusion. How fleet is a glance of the mind. Cowper.

tion, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. That day of grace fleets fast away. I. Watts. -- Days of grace (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States,…

Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet.

A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics. Bp. Stillingfleet.

town, or country. Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.

An adz; a hoe. [Obs.] Bp. Stillingfleet.

ame by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs. Shak.

o drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance. And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main. Pope.

r subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds. The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language. Landor.

es to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship of them. Bp. Stillingfleet.

nconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.

hiped their images as golds, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Incapable of being deposed. [R.] Princes indeposable by the pope. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc. Indicative mood (Gram.), that mood or form of the verb which indicates, that is, which simply affirms or denies or inquires; as, he writes; he is not writing; has the mail arrived

anding which inequality of number, it was resolved in a council of war to fight the Dutch fleet. Ludlow. Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition. Macaulay.

e; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. We should have made retreat By light of the inflamed fleet. Chapman.

d the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass. Dryden. Breath informs this fleeting frame. Prior. Breathes in our soul,informs our mortal part. Pope.

ds were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstruction. Bp. Stillingfleet.