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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as flet.

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  • "Abstineas, mors atra, precor, non hic mihi mater, Quæ legat in mæstos ossa perusta sinus; non soror, Assyrios cineri quæ dedat odores, et fleat effusis ante sepulchra comis."

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • In spraying the plant-beds for the fleat beetle it is used at the rate of 8 or 10 pounds of Arsenate to 50 gallons of water.

    Tobacco Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Crop Book Dept. 1915

  • -- One night a fleat presented itself round the Castle of the Island of Fogo -- and skewering only a couple of chests of jewils, the Marcus and the two young ladies in disgyise, fled from that island of bliss.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • On December 7, 2007, the Samsung crane fleat under collided to an oil tanker called Hebe Spirit on the sea of South Korean Chungchong-namdo Taean County.

    WN.com - Articles related to Japan supertanker probe reveals smashed hull 2010

  • On December 7, 2007, the Samsung crane fleat under collided to an oil tanker called Hebe

    WN.com - Articles related to Japan supertanker probe reveals smashed hull 2010

  • On December 7, 2007, the Samsung crane fleat under collided to an oil tanker called Hebe Spirit on the sea of South Korean Chungchong-namdo Taean

    WN.com - Articles related to Japan supertanker probe reveals smashed hull 2010

  • et tollis mersum luctu caput? omnia functa aut moritura uides: obeunt noctesque diesque astraque, nec solidis prodest sua machina terris. nam populus mortale genus; plebisque caducae5 quis fleat interitus? hos bella, hos aequora poscunt; his amor exitio, furor his et saeua cupido, ut sileam morbos; hos ora rigentia brumae, illos implacido letalis Sirius igni, hos manet imbrifero pallens Autumnus hiatu.

    'He bath outsoared the shadow of our night' 1912

  • depositum nec me qui fleat, ullus erit; 40 nec dominae lacrimis in nostra cadentibus ora

    Lines Written in Sickness Ovid 1912

  • quam fleat ob nostras ulla puella uias. te bellare decet terra, Messalla, marique,

    Love in the Valley Tibullus 1912

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