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  • English Word Fleer Definition To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
  • English Word Fleer Definition To mock; to flout at.
  • English Word Fleered Definition of Fleer
  • English Word Fleerer Definition One who fleers.
  • English Word Fleering Definition of Fleer
  • English Word Fleeringly Definition In a fleering manner.
  • English Word Fleet Definition To sail; to float.
  • English Word Fleet Definition To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
  • English Word Fleet Definition To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
  • English Word Fleet Definition To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
  • English Word Fleet Definition To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
  • English Word Fleet Definition To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
  • English Word Fleet Definition To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
  • English Word Fleet Definition Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
  • English Word Fleet Definition Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
  • English Word Fleet Definition A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
  • English Word Fleet Definition A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
  • English Word Fleet Definition A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
  • English Word Fleet Definition To take the cream from; to skim.
  • English Word Fleet-foot Definition Swift of foot.
  • English Word Fleeted Definition of Fleet
  • English Word Fleeten Definition Fleeted or skimmed milk.
  • English Word Fleeting Definition of Fleet
  • English Word Fleeting Definition Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.
  • English Word Fleetingly Definition In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
  • English Word Fleetings Definition A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds.
  • English Word Fleetly Definition In a fleet manner; rapidly.
  • English Word Fleetness Definition Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.
  • English Word Fleigh Definition imp. of Fly.
  • English Word Fleme Definition To banish; to drive out; to expel.