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er animal of the chase. Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes. Spenser. Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound. Pope.

rude workmanship. "Rude was the cloth." Chaucer. Rude and unpolished stones. Bp. Stillingfleet. The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton.

e appear. Waller. (c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.] The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians. Knolles. -- To set forward. (a) To cause to advance. (b) To promote. -- To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate. -- To se…

s and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug. "A mere sham." Bp. Stillingfleet. Believe who will the solemn sham, not I. Addison.

To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor. M. Arnold.

take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot. Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or t…

A ship that sails slowly. [Obs.] Halliwell. His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover. Pepys.

p of this image was advanced, and a solemn supplication observed everry year. Bp. Stillingfleet.

fixed in a purpose or opinion. "I will stand to it, that this is his sense." Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To abide by; to adhere to; as to a contrast, assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand to one's word. (d) Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain, as one's ground. "Their lives and fortunes were put in…

A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.

A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.

ried halls, invade. Pope. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath Gray.

Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.

the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet.

Loss; damage; injury. [Obs.] A grievous . . . sufferance on most part of their fleet. Shak.

Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. James i. 19. Swift of dispatch and easy of access. Dryden. And bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 Pet. ii. 1.…

Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.

In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.

rized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms. "A synodical epistle." Bp. Stillingfleet.

To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery. Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert. Hudibras.