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To sail; to float. [Obs.] And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet. Spenser.

Swift of foot. Shak.

Fleeted or skimmed milk. [Obs.] Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl.

Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.

In a fleeting manner; swiftly.

A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. [prov. Eng.] Wright.

In a fleet manner; rapidly.

Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.

k are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

musement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood.

its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.

y sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. Holland. There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich. Macaulay.

To assassinate. [Obs.] Stillingfleet.

Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance. -- Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; -- opposed to fore and aft.

Sir W. Scott. -- To bear down upon (Naut.), to approach from the windward side; as, the fleet bore down upon the enemy. -- To bear in with (Naut.), to run or tend toward; as, a ship bears in with the land. -- To bear off (Naut.), to steer away, as from land. -- To bear up. (a) To be supported; to have fortitude; t…

To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.

he controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet.

cies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.

in a blundering manner; to confuse. He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet.