These are the meanings of the letters ELMUTFE when you unscramble them.
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Elute (v. t.)
To wash out.
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Fleet (n. & a.)
To sail; to float.
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Fleet (n. & a.)
To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
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Fleet (n. & a.)
To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
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Fleet (v. t.)
To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
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Fleet (v. t.)
To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
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Fleet (v. t.)
To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
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Fleet (v. t.)
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
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Fleet (v. i.)
Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
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Fleet (v. i.)
Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
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Fleet (v. i.)
A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
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Fleet (v. i.)
A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
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Fleet (v. i.)
A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
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Fleet (v. i.)
To take the cream from; to skim.
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Flume (n.)
A stream; especially, a passage channel, or conduit for the water that drives a mill wheel; or an artifical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.
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Flute (v. i.)
A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.
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Flute (v. i.)
A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.
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Flute (n.)
A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp. in plaited cloth, as in a lady's ruffle.
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Flute (n.)
A long French breakfast roll.
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Flute (n.)
A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
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Flute (n.)
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
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Flute (v. i.)
To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
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Flute (v. t.)
To play, whistle, or sing with a clear, soft note, like that of a flute.
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Flute (v. t.)
To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
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Fumet (n.)
The dung of deer.
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Fumet (n.)
Alt. of Fumette