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To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf. Spenser.

In a fleet manner; rapidly.

To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate. It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. Hooker.

deck. (Naut.) See under Deck, n., 1. -- Flush tank, a water tank which can be emptied rapidly for flushing drainpipes, etc.

; disorder. Pope. Flutter wheel, a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.

To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.

Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.

An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime.

To talk idly; to prate; to chatter. Holinshed.

Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

nd a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen,…

Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination. Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it. Locke.

Going at a gallop; progressing rapidly; as, a galloping horse.

o bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.

Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. Pope.

the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing. I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon! Tennyson.

To speak rapidly and inarticulately. Shak.

Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily. What is't that you took up so gingerly Shak.

To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay.