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Flight feathers

Flight \Flight\ (fl[imac]t), n. [AS. fliht, flyht, a flying, fr. fle['o]gan to fly; cf. flyht a fleeing, fr. fle['o]n to flee, G. flucht a fleeing, Sw. flykt, G. flug a flying, Sw. flygt, D. vlugt a fleeing or flying, Dan. flugt. [root]84. See Flee, Fly.]

  1. The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

    Like the night owl's lazy flight.
    --Shak.

  2. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure.

    Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
    --Matt. xxiv. 20.

    Fain by flight to save themselves.
    --Shak.

  3. Lofty elevation and excursion; a mounting; a soaring; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.

    Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy.
    --Byron.

    His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor.
    --Macaulay.

  4. A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
    --Swift.

    Swift flights of angels ministrant.
    --Milton.

    Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts.
    --Shak.

  5. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
    --Parker.

  6. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. [Obs.]

    Challenged Cupid at the flight.
    --Shak.

    Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have.
    --Beau. & Fl.

  7. The husk or glume of oats. [Prov. Eng.]
    --Wright.

  8. a trip made by or in a flying vehicle, as an airplane, spacecraft, or aeronautical balloon.

  9. A scheduled flight[8] on a commercial airline; as, the next flight leaves at 8 o'clock.

    Flight feathers (Zo["o]l.), the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird.

    To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout.

    to take a flight[9], to make a trip in an airplane, especially a scheduled flight[9].

    Syn: Pair; set. See Pair.

Wiktionary
flight feathers

n. (flight feather English)

Usage examples of "flight feathers".

But if I hit the target, then you will not only fashion me the quiver to sling across my back, but fletch the arrows to go in it with your own flight feathers, SpikeFeather TrueSong.

Out of the dark swirling murk, the two races suddenly appeared, so close Richard could see the quills running down through their flight feathers spread wide in the wind.

Invisible columns of force rose from the hole in the earth, making the air ripple as if it were melting, and catching in the flight feathers of Raifs arrow.

These, though, with red streaks on their chests and crimson at the base of their flight feathers, she had come to recognize.

As the wings swung out, the joints opened automatically, and her flight feathers spread.

Nervous, anticipatory shivers flowed down the bureaucrat's head-crest all the way to its vestigial flight feathers, bringing forth chirps of complaint from the two Kwackoo aides.

Their coverts--the small feathers along ae wings and just over the base of the tail, which covered s of the larger flight feathers--were quite pale, and pre- ig contrast to their dark wings and back.

The flight feathers on the arrow kissed his cheek as he called the creature to him.