† ˈflotten, ppl. a. Obs.
Also floten.
[pa. pple. of fleet v.1 and v.2]
1. Flooded with water.
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. xviii. xviii. 577 They were woont to cast their seed-corne upon the floten ground. |
2. Skimmed.
flotten milk: skim milk.
| 1600 W. Vaughan Direct. for Health (1633) 72 Browne⁓bread crummed into..flotten milke. 1608 R. Armin Nest Ninn. (1880) 48 Fed with the flottin milke of nicetie and wantonnesse. 1614 Markham Cheap Husb. ii. i. (1668) 71 Bring them [Calves] up upon the finger, with flotten milk. 1661 K. W. Char. Coxcombs (1860) 30 Flotten cheese. 1721 in Bailey. |
| fig. 1632 Quarles Div. Fancies ii. xxviii. (1660) 60 We Fleet the Mornings for our own Design; Perchance the Flotten Afternoons are thine. |