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Home Dictionary Name: fleetingFleet-books
Fleet-books. These books contain the original entries of marriages solemnized in the Old Fleet Prison from 1686 to 1754, but are not, it is said, admissible in evidence to prove a marriage, for they were not made under public authority. But perhaps on a question of pedigree, they ae evidence to show the name by which a woman passed when she was married there. The books are now deposited in the office of the Registrar-General, pursuant to the (English) Non-Parochial Registers Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 92), ss. 6, 23, Taylor on Evid., s. 1430; Hubback on Succession, p. 510....
Fleeting
Passing swiftly away not durable transient transitory as the fleeting hours or moments...
Fleetingly
In a fleeting manner swiftly...
Fleetly
In a fleet manner rapidly...
Fleetness
Swiftness rapidity velocity celerity speed as the fleetness of a horse or of time...
Fleet
Fleet [fr. fleot, Sax., an estuary], a place where the tide flows, a creek, or inlet of water, hence Northfleet, Purfleet; also a company of ships or navy; also a prison in London (so called from a river or ditch formerly in its vicinity), now abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22....
Flotilla
A little fleet or a fleet of small vessels...
Hypallage
A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to others Thus Virgil says ldquodare classibus austrosrdquo to give the winds to the fleets instead of dare classibus austris to give the fleets to the winds...
manila bay
The name of a naval battle in the Spanish American War 1898 in which the American fleet under Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet off the shore of Manila in the Phillipines...
Navarino
The name of a naval battle in the War of Greek Independence 1827 at which the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by the allied fleet...
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