Word Meanings - FLOTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fleet; especially, a

Related words: (words related to FLOTA)

• FLEET-FOOT
  Swift of foot. Shak.
• FLEETINGLY
  In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
• FLEETING
  Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.
• FLEET
  To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser. (more info) vlieten to flow, OS. fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. fljota to float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr. plu to swim,
• FLEETEN
  Fleeted or skimmed milk. 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.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• FLEETNESS
  Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.
• FLEETINGS
  A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. Wright.
• FLEETLY
  In a fleet manner; rapidly.