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Webster 1913 Edition
Flit
Flit
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Flitted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flitting
.] [OE. ]
flitten
, flutten
, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja
, Sw. flytta
, Dan. flytte
. √84. Cf. Fleet
, Verb.
I.
1.
To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet;
as, a bird
flits
away; a cloud flits
along.A shadow
flits
before me. Tennyson.
2.
To flutter; to rove on the wing.
Dryden.
3.
To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did
flit
out of one body into some other. Hooker.
4.
To remove from one place or habitation to another.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Wright. Jamieson.
5.
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
And the free soul to
flitting
air resigned. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Flit
FLIT
,Verb.
I.
1.
To fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to move with celerity through the air. We say, a bird flits away, or flits in air; a cloud flits along.2.
To flutter; to rove on the wing.3.
To remove; to migrate; to pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another.It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.
4.
In Scotland, to remove from one habitation to another.5.
To be unstable; to easily or often moved.An the free soul to flitting air resigned.
FLIT
,Adj.