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

ached 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 of…

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.

o 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.

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

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

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.

ion, 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.

me 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.