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takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.

charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

An army or fleet. [Obs.] Shak.

ementary religious instruction. The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear. Milton.

was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

upon an accuser. It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently toBp. Stillingfleet.

strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. [Written also reinforce.]

al troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.

To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.

Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment. The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough. Clarendon.

escription; the remainder; others. "Plato and the rest of the philosophers." Bp. Stillingfleet. Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears. DRyden.

I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it. Bp. Stillingfleet.

The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.

r 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.

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 set…

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.

ake 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 to…