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flitting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flit \Flit\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitting.] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. [root]84. Cf. Fleet, v. i.]
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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. To flutter; to rove on the wing.
--Dryden.-
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. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
--Wright. Jamieson.-
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
And the free soul to flitting air resigned.
--Dryden.
Flitting \Flit"ting\, n.
A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
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A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away.
--Jeffrey.
Flitting \Flitt"ing\, Flytting \Flytt"ing\, n. Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century. [Obs. or Scot.]
These ``flytings'' consisted of alternate torrents of
sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the
combatants.
--Saintsbury.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The motion of something that flits. 2 (context Scotland northern England English) The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house. vb. (present participle of flit English)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "flitting".
His globe, imported at great cost from Earth itself, involved anoles, quick, flitting creatures that fed and mated, birthed and died and fed the plants that fed the creatures that fed them.
His archenemy had learned of Sera, undoubtedly from the rumors flitting about East Chatham.
Everywhere there is a sound of closing shutters and shoving bolts, and the only visible humanity is an occasional flitting eye under a raised eyebrow in the corner of a window pane.
Jack the difference between the chiffchaff and the willow-wren, several of which were flitting about in the leaves just overhead.
But this was the time of day when Dippy liked specially to prance and jump and skurry after dusky, shadowy, flitting things, so before Marian could pounce upon him, he was off and away like a streak and could not be found.
Ross saw the soldier peering through the open window, his dark eyes flitting from the official passes on the windscreen to the one Tsao was holding out to him.
They were too far from land to sight any birds, and the only sealife Bardolin had glimpsed were a few shoals of wingfish flitting over the surface of the waves.
He had done similar service to other lovers similarly circumstanced, and had disposed them in various wild scenes which he and his men had discovered in their flittings from place to place, supplying them with all necessaries and comforts from the reluctant disgorgings of fat abbots and usurers.
In open order they moved across the plain, with a superb disregard of the crash and patter of the shrapnel, and then up they went, the flitting figures, springing from cover to cover, stooping, darting, crouching, running, until with their glasses the spectators on Swartz Kop could see the gleam of the bayonets and the strain of furious rushing men upon the summit, as the last Boers were driven from their trenches.
She saw the flitting, nervous forms of a couple of crowders, and even a potbelly, sitting squat on the trunk of a walnut.
The aurora continued to softly wisp in the sky, vaguely reminiscent of the eerier, flitting ghosts themselves.
The shadows ceased flitting over her features, and the old woman, who watched her from day to day and from hour to hour as a mother watches her child, saw the likeness she bore to her mother coming forth more and more, as the cold glitter died out of the diamond eyes, and the stormy scowl disappeared from the dark brows and low forehead.
Around one of the geysers were circling and flitting a dozen things that looked like swirling spheres of flame, with coiling, brilliant tentacles of light.
Myriads of bright yellow little birds were perched on the girders, or flitting through the prisms of light admitted by the bizarre windows, by the great triangles of glass that pierced the crown.
For a man of his size, he was remarkably fast, flitting between the marching support pillars of the expressway and into the shadows a good twenty metres ahead now.