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Reenforce :: Reenforce (v. t.) To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reenforce an argument; to reenforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet..

Flote :: Flote (v. t.) To fleet; to skim.

Flit :: Flit (a.) Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.

Swiftfoot :: Swiftfoot (a.) Nimble; fleet.

Becalm :: Becalm (v. t.) To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed..

Fleet :: Fleet (v. i.) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil..

On :: On (prep.) At or near; adjacent to; -- indicating situation, place, or position; as, on the one hand, on the other hand; the fleet is on the American coast..

Reenforcement :: Reenforcement (n.) That which reenforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet..

Swift :: Swift (v. i.) Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt.

Fleetness :: Fleetness (n.) Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time..

Athwart :: Athwart (prep.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course..

Light-winged :: Light-winged (a.) Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting.

Storey :: Storeship (n.) A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like..

Preparation :: Preparation (n.) An army or fleet.

Navarch :: Navarch (n.) The commander of a fleet.

Hypallage :: Hypallage (n.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, dare classibus austros, to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds..

Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages..

Fleet :: Fleet (v. i.) A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London..

Armada :: Armada (v. t.) A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558..

Fleet-foot :: Fleet-foot (a.) Swift of foot.

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