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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Flite | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Flite \Flite\, Flyte \Flyte\, n. [AS. fl[c6]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 [bd]flyte[b8] 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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Flite \Flite\, v. i. [AS. fl[c6]tan to strive, contend, quarrel; akin to G. fleiss industry.] To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.] --Grose. | |
