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y the heels, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison. Shak. Addison. -- To show the heels, to flee; to run from. -- To take to the heels, to flee; to betake to flight. -- To throw up another's heels, to trip him. Bunyan. -- To tread upon one's heels, to follow closely. Shak.

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.

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. [Obs.] Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope.

a field impurpled with blood. Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Milton. The silken fleece impurpled for the loom. Pope.

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.

islands; insulation. The insularity of Britain was first shown by Agricola, who sent his fleet round it. Pinkerton.

A method of moving a fleet from one formation to another, the direction usually being changed eight points (90º), by means of paths of equal length for each ship. It is prohibited in the United States navy.