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▪ I. fleeting, vbl. n.1|ˈfliːtɪŋ|
[f. fleet v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. in various senses.
1375Barbour Bruce ii. 588 To furthyr thaim off thar fleting. 1581Mulcaster Positions xx. 84 It [walking] is good..for the iaundise, costifnesse, fleeting of the meat in the stomacke. 1587Golding De Mornay xv. 229 The fleeting of soules out of one body into another. 1616Rich Cabinet 95 b, The proudest confidence maketh our chiefest footing a changeable fleeting. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 127 One of the best known of English witch ordeals is the trial by ‘fleeting’ or swimming.
▪ II. fleeting, vbl. n.2 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈfliːtɪŋ|
[f. fleet v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of skimming a liquid, esp. milk.
c1440Promp. Parv. 167/1 Fletynge of lycowre, spumacio, despumacio. 1474in Househ. Ord. (1790) 32 The maister cooke hath the fleetinge of the leade. 1615Markham Eng. Housew. ii. vi. (1668) 145 The fleeting or gathering of your Cream from the Milk.
b. concr. in pl. Skimmings, curds (see quots.).
1611Cotgr., Sarrason, fleetings, or hastie curds scumd from the whey of a new-milke cheese, then thickened [etc.]. 1845H. White in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VI. i. 121 The last skimmings are termed fleetings, and are generally reserved for the use of the servants. 1873E. Smith Foods 329 When butter-milk is added to boiling whey..a soft curd is thrown down. This mixture is called fleetings in Wales.
2. attrib. and Comb., as fleeting-dish, a dish used for skimming cream from milk; fleeting-milk, skim-milk; in quot. fig.
1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 181 Taking off the cream with a *fleeting dish. 1847Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VIII. i. 75 This is..skimmed with a common fleeting-dish.
a1670Hacket Abp. Williams i. (1692) 19 It was the *flitting milk of a poor Vicarage, the parsonage tithes being scumm'd from it.
▪ III. fleeting, vbl. n.3|ˈfliːtɪŋ|
[f. fleet n.1 + -ing1.]
A particular kind of trawling (see quot.).
1884Daily News 18 Sept. 5/2 The new ‘fleeting’ system, by which fishing boats are now kept at sea for a considerable time while fast steamers ply between them and the shore, carrying the fish as they are caught.
▪ IV. † ˈfleeting, vbl. n.4 Obs.
[f. fleet n.2]
Confinement in the Fleet Prison.
1589Sir T. Smith Comm. Engl. iii. iv. 121 After they had..bin well disciplined as well by wordes, as by fleeting a while. 1592G. Harvey Four Lett. iii. Wks. (Grosart) I. 183 And that was all the Fleeting, that euer I felt.
▪ V. fleeting, ppl. a.|ˈfliːtɪŋ|
[f. fleet v.1 + -ing2.]
That fleets, in senses of the vb.
†1. Floating; of a fish: Swimming. Obs.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 1447 (Gr.) Se feond ᵹespearn fleotende hreaw. 1340–70Alex. & Dind. 491 Þe fletinge fihs þat in þe fom lepen. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. lxxi. 106 Amongst the fleeting herbes there is also a certayne herbe which some call Water Lyverworte.
†2. That moves constantly, shifting, unstable, wandering; hence of a person or his attributes: Changeable, fickle, inconstant, vacillating. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 76 Mid te fleotinde word, to fleoteð þe heorte. c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. iii. (Camb. MS.) 6 Fleetynge Errour. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) i. iii. 4 The fletyng ayer geuyth place to the flyght of byrdes. 1553J. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 3 Preachers, must now and then plaie the fooles in the pulpit, to serve the tickle eares of their fletyng audience. 1592Greene Groat's W. Wit (1617) 15 If I finde thee firme, Lamilia will bee faithfull: if fleeting, she must..be infortunate. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 240 The fleeting Moone No Planet is of mine. 1649Milton Eikon. ii. 17 Of such a variable and fleeting conscience what hold can be tak'n? 1650Fuller Pisgah i. 424 Their wonder, that so firm a fabrick should stand on so fleeting a foundation.
†3. Flowing; fluid. fleeting sacrifices: drink offerings. Obs.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 177 Wat is folc bute fletende water. 1388Wyclif Exod. xxv. 29 Cuppis..in whiche fletynge sacrifices schulen be offrid. 1398Trevisa Barth. de P.R. vi. xxii. (Tollem. MS.), Drynke is a fletynge substaunce nedful to þe fedynge of a beste. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 54 Take ryse and fletande fignade. 1567Turberv. Epitaphes, &c. (1870) 175 So stands the foole by fleeting floud. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 594 The slipp'ry God will..In fleeting Streams attempt to slide away.
4. Passing swiftly by. Chiefly of life or time.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. xcvii, Thee, the pleasure of the fleeting yeare. a1704T. Brown Persius' Sat. i. Wks. 1730 I. 53 Thy fleeting years of youth will soon be gone. 1811W. R. Spencer Poems 193 'Tis pain to part For e'en one fleeting night. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. (1877) I. viii. 169 The fleeting generations of man.
5. Passing or gliding swiftly away.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 722 She said, and from his Eyes the fleeting Fair Retir'd like subtle Smoke dissolv'd in Air. a1704T. Brown On the Beauties Wks. 1730 I. 44 Scarcely my breast my fleeting soul retains. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xvii. (1824) 619 He followed their fleeting figures. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art 3 To catch the fleeting soul of the triumphant martyr.
6. Existing for a brief period; not permanent or enduring; transitory, passing, fading.
1563B. Googe Eglogs (Arb.) 73 Beholde this fletyng world how al things fade. 1667Milton P.L. x. 741 O fleeting joyes Of Paradise. 1771Gray Let. 24 May, Poems (1775) 395, I have indeed a short one [journal]..that serves to recal and fix the fleeting images of these things. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 30 Pleasure the most fleeting of all things.
Hence ˈfleetingly adv., ˈfleetingness.
1709Berkeley Th. Vision §156 The perpetual mutability and fleetingness of those immediate objects of sight. 1842Manning Serm. Faithf. Departed (1848) I. 309 Poets were wont to bewail the fleetingness of life. 1883M. K. Macmillan Let. 23 Oct., I have read, fleetingly, a very considerable section of his prose writings. |