ppl. a. Obs. Also floten. [pa. pple. of FLEET v.1 and 2.]

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  1.  Flooded with water.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. XVIII. xviii. 577. They were woont to cast their seed-corne upon the floten ground.

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  2.  Skimmed. Flotten milk: skim milk.

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1600.  W. Vaughan, Direct. for Health (1633), 72. Browne-bread crummed into … flotten milke.

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1608.  Armin, Nest Ninn. (1880), 48. Fed with the flottin milke of nicetie and wantonnesse, curdled in thy wombe of water and bloud.

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1614.  Markham, Cheap Husb., II. i. (1668), 71. Bring them [Calves] up upon the finger, with flotten milk.

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1661.  K. W., Confused Characters, Coxcombs (1860), 30. Dare not stuffe his greasy pokets with flotten cheese, for fear of the hogoe, and his wonted enemy the rats.

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1721.  in Bailey.

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  fig.  1632.  Quarles, Div. Fancies, II. xxviii. (1660), 60.

        We Fleet the Mornings for our own Design;
Perchance the Flotten Afternoons are thine.

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