[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fleet \fleet\ fl=et, v. i. imp.  p. p. fleeted; p. pr. 
   vb. n. fleeting. oe. fleten, fleoten, to swim, as.
   fle'otan to swim, float; akin to d. vlieten to flow, os.
   fliotan, ohg. fliozzan, g. fliessen, icel. flj=ota to
   float, flow, sw. flyta, d. flyde, l. pluere to rain, gr.
   plei^n to sail, swim, float, skr. plu to swim, sail.
   root84. cf. fleet, n.  a., float, pluvial, flow.
   1. to sail; to float. obs.
      1913 webster

            and in frail wood on adrian gulf doth fleet.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. to fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit
      as a light substance.
      1913 webster

            all the unaccomplished works of nature's hand, . . .
            dissolved on earth, fleet hither.     --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. naut. to slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan
      or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
      1913 webster

   4. naut. to move or change in position; -- said of persons;
      as, the crew fleeted aft.
      webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
fleeted fleeting fleet float pluvial flow 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fleeting \fleet"ing\, a.
   passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as,
   the fleeting hours or moments.

   syn: evanescent; ephemeral. see transient.
        1913 webster
see also:
transient 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

fleeting
     adj : lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance";
           "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of
           things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" syn:
            fugitive, momentaneous, momentary
see also:
fugitive momentaneous momentary 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

59 moby thesaurus words for "fleeting":
   abrupt, blunt, brief, brittle, brusque, capricious, changeable,
   compendious, corruptible, crusty, curt, deciduous, disappearing,
   dissolving, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, evaporating, fading,
   fickle, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious,
   fugitive, gruff, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant,
   insubstantial, laconic, melting, momentary, mortal, mutable,
   nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, short,
   short and sweet, short-lived, snippety, snippy, succinct, temporal,
   temporary, terse, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable,
   unenduring, unstable, vanishing, volatile

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