Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fleeting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fleet \Fleet\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fleeted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fleeting}.] [OE. fleten, fleoten, to swim, AS. fle['o]tan to
swim, float; akin to D. vlieten to flow, OS. fliotan, OHG.
fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. flj[=o]ta to float, flow, Sw.
flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr. ? to sail, swim,
float, Skr. plu to swim, sail. [root]84. Cf. {Fleet}, n. &
a., {Float}, {Pluvial}, {Flow}.]
1. To sail; to float. [Obs.]
And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet.
--Spenser.
2. To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit
as a light substance.
All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . .
Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. --Milton.
3. (Naut.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan
or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fleeting \Fleet"ing\, a.
Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as,
the fleeting hours or moments.
Syn: Evanescent; ephemeral. See {Transient}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fleeting
adj 1: moving or passing by very swiftly; "fleeting clouds passing
before the face of the moon"
2: 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}]
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