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A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court- leet; the day on which a court-leet is held. Shak.

One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.

held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.

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.

To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet. Wiseman.

Ichorous; thin; limpid. Wiseman.

The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.

Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers. [Scot.]

The state of being sleety.

Of or pertaining to sleet; characterized by sleet; as, a sleety storm; sleety weather.

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

usement, 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.