These are the meanings of the letters TELEFUM when you unscramble them.
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Elute (v. t.)
To wash out.
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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 sail; to float.
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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. 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.)
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.)
Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
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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.)
To take the cream from; to skim.
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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. t.)
To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
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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 pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
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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 (n.)
A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
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Flute (n.)
A long French breakfast roll.
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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 stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound.
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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 (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.)
To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
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Flute (v. t.)
To form flutes or channels in, as in a column, a ruffle, etc.
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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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Fumet (n.)
Alt. of Fumette
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Fumet (n.)
The dung of deer.