Word Meanings - FLEETEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• FLEET
  1. A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London. Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets. Matthewes. 2. A former prison in London,
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• SKIMMER
  Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible
• WHEREIN
  1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• BLANCH HOLDING
  A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
• COWARDICE
  Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.
• WHERETO
  1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
• WHEREAS
  1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• FLEET-FOOT
  Swift of foot. Shak.
• WHERE'ER
  Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
• FLEETINGLY
  In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
• COLOR
  1. To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir
• FLEETING
  Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.
• 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.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• WHEREINTO
  1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively.
• WHERESOE'ER
  Wheresoever. "Wheresoe'er they rove." Milton.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• WHER; WHERE
  Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• TRICOLOR
  1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.