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English Dictionary: flitting	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for flitting
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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 [bd]flytings[b8] consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants. --Saintsbury.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.] 1. 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. 2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. --Dryden. 3. 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. 4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Jamieson. 5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. And the free soul to flitting air resigned. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flitting \Flit"ting\, n. 1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering. 2. 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.