Crossword clues for flitted
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: flit)
WordNet
See flit
Usage examples of "flitted".
Beauty flitted to her shoulder, wrapping her tail lightly around Menolly's neck as she peered toward Piemur, cocking her head this way and that as if analyzing the sound and Menolly's command.
Fire-dragonets flitted around the dragons, chirping what was obviously encouragement.
Twinkling here and there, patrol vehicles flitted on seemingly random courses like fire flies.
In a matter of seconds, they flitted away and he was clad in the most gorgeous raiment she had ever seen, his unsightly injuries masked.
She throttled back, trying to give them time to widen and flitted through the narrow gap with just meters to spare.
A handful of spy-spheres hovering there flitted out into the window and disappeared into the night.
The thought flitted even as she tried to protect herself from the boots kicking her.
They flitted back to Trefoil, circling over quays empty of any fishing craft.
That was where Kris came in, because she had flitted all over the city with her owner.
Their movements had a discipline, while other groups flitted about in a kind of chaotic frenzy.
A brief memory of a girl’s voice urging him to think of Spacer Yves flitted through his mind.
He swung his legs out of danger as the Thread continued down into the water deep enough to be swallowed by Dart or one of the other dolphins, or some of the schools of fish that flitted about to feast on the manna.
Oklina looked scared and her eyes flitted nervously to the crowded square where a new dance was forming.
Instead she had blithely flitted off, smugly pleased with her wing repair.
Then I recalled that dragonriders often flitted from one Gather to another, and there had been two Gathers on the same day, Ista as well as Ruatha, to lure them from their mountain homes.