Crossword clues for flite
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flite \Flite\, v. i. [AS. fl[=i]tan to strive, contend, quarrel;
akin to G. fleiss industry.]
To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.]
--Grose.
Flite \Flite\, Flyte \Flyte\, n. [AS. fl[=i]t. See Flite.] Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
The bird of Pallas has also a good ``flyte'' on the
moral side . . . in his suggestion that the principal
effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false
to their husbands.
--Saintsbury.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to scold," c.1500, earlier "to content with words, chide, wrangle," from Old English flitan, cognate with Old High German flizzan "to strive." Related: Flited; fliting.\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 a quarrel, dispute, wrangling 2 a scolding vb. 1 to dispute, quarrel, wrangle, brawl 2 to scold, jeer
Wikipedia
Flite may mean:
- A small run-time speech synthesis engine used by Festival Speech Synthesis System
- A new name for Widgetbox (a San Francisco, California based company that enables businesses to create and deliver applications to their customers)
- A quarrel, dispute, wrangling; a scolding: see wiktionary:flite
Usage examples of "flite".
He told us how he saw Miss Flite there daily, how they talked together, and how he did her little kindnesses, and how, while he laughed at her, he pitied her from his heart.
On the following day Mr. Weevle, who is a handy good-for-nothing kind of young fellow, borrows a needle and thread of Miss Flite and a hammer of his landlord and goes to work devising apologies for window-curtains, and knocking up apologies for shelves, and hanging up his two teacups, milkpot, and crockery sundries on a pennyworth of little hooks, like a shipwrecked sailor making the best of it.
When we had finished and had our little dessert before us, embellished by the hands of my dear, who would yield the superintendence of everything prepared for me to no one, Miss Flite was so very chatty and happy that I thought I would lead her to her own history, as she was always pleased to talk about herself.
As he that striues to stop a suddein flood,And in strong banckes his violence enclose,Forceth it swell aboue his wonted mood,And largely ouerflow the fruitfull plaine,That all the countrey seemes to be a Maine,And the rich furrowes flote, all quite fordonne:The wofull husbandman doth lowd complaine,To see his whole yeares labour lost so soone,For which to God he made so many an idle boone.
George as "General," she gave him her arm, to the great entertainment of some idlers who were looking on, he was so discomposed and begged me so respectfully "not to desert him" that I could not make up my mind to do it, especially as Miss Flite was always tractable with me and as she too said, "Fitz Jarndyce, my dear, you will accompany us, of course.