Word Meanings - SWIFTFOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.

Related words: (words related to SWIFTFOOT)

• 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.
• FLEETNESS
  Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.
• NIMBLE
  Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope. Note: Nimble is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, nimble-footed, nimble-pinioned,
• FLEETINGS
  A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. Wright.
• FLEETLY
  In a fleet manner; rapidly.
• NIMBLENESS
  The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.
• NIMBLESS
  Nimbleness. Spenser.