flector (flektor)

An improper form of flexor. fled (fled). Preterit and past participle of fleel. fledget (flej), a. [Also flidge, flish, flitch, flush, flig, fligged, etc. (see flush8 ); ME. flegge, fligge, flygge = MD. vlugghe, D. vlug, fledge, able to fly, nimble, volatile, = MLG. vlugge = OHG. flucchi, MHG. vlücke, G. flücke, flügge = Icel. fleygr ), fledge, able to fly, Driue their young ones out of the nest when they be once flidge . Holland . We lookt on this side of thee, shooting short; Where we did finde The shells of fledge souls left behinde. G. Herbert, The Temple - Death. His locks behind Illustrious on his shoulders fledge with wings Lay waving round. Milton , P. L., iii. 627. fledge (flej), v.; pret. and pp. fledged, ppr. fledg ing. [Also formerly or dial. flidge; out. In Westminster, the Strand, Holborn, and the chief places of resort about London, doe they every day build their nests, and every houre flidge , and, in tear me-time especially, flutter they abroad in flocks. Greene (Harl. Misc., VIII. 383). II. trans. To feather or provide with plumage; provide with anything resembling plumage. [Rare.] Cupid took another dart,... Fledged it for another heart. D. G. Ro etti, Troy Town. fledged (flejd), p. a. 1. Furnished with feathers; able to fly. Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was fledged ; and then it is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak., M. of V., iii. 1. The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for Sir R. L'Estrange. themselves. Hence-2. Covered with anything resembling or serving the purpose of feathers. The juvenal, the prince your master, whose chin is not yet fledged. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. The bents, And coarser gra ,.. now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And, fledg'd with icy feathers, nod superb. Cowper , Task, v. 26. Enormous elmtree-boles did stoop and lean Upon the dusky brushwood underneath Their broad curved branches, fledged with clearest green. Tennyson , Fair Women. 3. Equipped for flight; winged. Light lier move The minutes fledged with music. 4. Developed; matured. IMG:content-1473.png:[blocks in formation] 3. In her., the woolly skin of a sheep, usually so depicted that it resembles the animal itself, suspended by means of a ring pa ing around its middle. It is the well-known pendent badge of the order of the Golden Fleece, and is also used as a bearing. 4. In a bison, the fat and lean meat which lies along the loin and ribs. C. Hallock. [Western U. S.]-5t. [ There's scarce a match-maker in the whole town but has had a fleece at his purse. Mrs. Cent livre, Beau's Duel, ii. 2. fledwitet, n. See fletwite . fleel (fle), v.; pret. and pp. fted , ppr. fleeing . Golden fleece, in Gr . myth ., the fleece of gold taken from [ the ram on which Phrixus and Helle escaped from being sacrificed. It was hung up in Colchis, and recovered from King Æëtes by the Argonautic expedition under Jason, with the help of Medea. Her sunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece , Which makes her seat of Belmont, Colchos' strand, And many Jasons come in quest of her. Shak., M. of V., i. 1. Order of the Golden Fleece, an order founded by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in 1430, on the occasion of his marriage with the infanta Isabella of Portugal. The office of grand master pa ed to the house of Hapsburg in 1477 with acquisition the Burgundian dominions, which included the Netherlands. After the time of the emperor Charles V. (died 1558) this office was exercised = Dan. fly (pret. flyede ), flee, = Goth. thliu han (pret. thlauh , pp. thlauhans ), flee. The orig. initial consonant th has changed to f (as in some other cases) in all but the Goth.; the common Teut. root is * thluh , the word being quite different from flyl , AS. fleógan , etc., *flug, with which, however, it has been partly confused from the AS. period: see fly1.] I. in trans . 1. To run away; take flight; seek escape or safety by flight. Whan the Knyghte saw hire in that Forme so hidous and so horrible, he fleyghe awey. Mandeville , Travels, p. 24. A lytille aboven is the Chapelle of Moyses, and the Roche where Moyses fley he to, for drede, whan he saughe oure Lord face to face. Mandeville , Travels, p. 62. Jas. iv. 7. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. It soon appeared that a conspiracy had been on foot; several great men fled from court, among these Johannes, who had charge of the king's horses. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 615. Netherlands to Austria the latter power in 1715 again claimed the office. The dispute remains undecided, and the order therefore exists independently in Austria and in Spain. The badge of the order is a golden ram pendent by a ring which pa es round its middle. This hangs from a jewel of elaborate design, with enameling of several colors, various suggestive devices, and the motto "Pretium laborum non vile." fleece (fles), v. t.; pret. and pp. fleeced, ppr. fleecing. [ They sate Fleecing those Flocks which they never fed. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xiii. I am glad to drink sherbet in Damascus, and fleece my flocks on the plains of Marathon. G. W. Curtis, Prue and I, p. 40. 2t. To clip or diminish, as a fleece: said of dishonest taking of goods or property. Their wealth and substance being eury where so fleeced , they came into Syria, much le ened in numbers, in estate miserable and beggarly. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 519. 3. To strip of money or property unfairly from without mercy. 2. To disappear; disperse: as, all our pleasures under false pretenses; rob heartle ly; take have fled ; the color fled from her cheeks; the clouds flee before the rising sun. IMG:content-1474.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To move swiftly; fly; speed, as a mi ile. (Rare.] For arrows fled not swifter toward their aim Than did our soldiers. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. II. trans. To avoid by flight; fly from; shun. All flagh hym in fere for ferd of his dynttes. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 10699. Thou, O man of God, flee these things. 1 Tim. vi. 11. Bold Bavaria fled the Field. Congreve, Pindaric Odes, i. An obsolete or dialectal form of flee2 (flē), n. fly2. fleest, a. An obsolete form of fly3 . fleece (fles), n. [ flus , fleose , fleós , also in umlauted form flys , fliés , flés , fleece, = D. vlies = LG. flüs = OHG. vlies , G. vlie , flies, MHG. vlius , G. obs. fleu , flü , fleece. A third form appears in MHG. vlūs = MLG. LG. vlūs , fleece; cf. OHG. flaus , toga, G. flaus or flausch , a tuft (of wool, etc.), pilot-cloth. Not in Scand. or Goth.; con- nections unknown.] 1. The coat of wool that covers a sheep, or that is shorn from a sheep at one time. In commerce wools are distinguished as fleece- wools and dead - wools , the former being obtained from the living animals at the annual shearings, and the latter from animals that have been killed. There was a shepe, as it was tolde, The whiche his flees bare all of golde. Gower, Conf. Amant., v. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade. IMG:content-1475.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1476.png:[blocks in formation] The heavens between their fairy fleeces pale Sow'd all their mystic gulfs with fleeting stars, The oriole's fledglings fifty times Have flown from our familiar elms. Lowell, To Holmes. Hence-2. A raw or inexperienced person. Unle it were a bloody murtherer, Or foul felonious thief, that fleec'd poor pa engers, I never gave them condign punishment. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. In bad inns you are fleeced and starved. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 1. The outer enclosure is practically a bazaar filled with shops, where pilgrims are lodged, and fed, and fleeced. J. Fergu on, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 348. 4. To spread over as if with a fleece of wool. Meantime, light shadowing all, a sober calm Fleeces unbounded ether. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 958.