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verb

Flit v. i. (past & past part. flitted; pres. part. flitting)

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."

To flutter; to rove on the wing.

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."

To remove from one place or habitation to another. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)

To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. "And the free soul to flitting air resigned."

adjective

Flit adj. Nimble; quick; swift. (Obs.) See Fleet.

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Etymology of 'Flit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flit" Quotes from Famous Books

... hast not sailed in Indian seas, Where scent comes forth in every breeze. Thou hast not seen the rich grape grow For miles, as far as eyes can go; Thou hast not seen a summer's night When maids could sew by a worm's light; Nor the North Sea in spring send out Bright hues that like birds flit about In solid cages of white ice— Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Love-one-place. Thou hast not seen black fingers pick White cotton when the bloom is thick, Nor heard black throats in harmony; Nor hast thou sat on stones that lie Flat on the earth, that once did rise To hide proud kings from common ...

— Foliage • William H. Davies

... morning, or haunted only by those whose business—whether for good or evil—forced them out of doors, he met no one and saw no lights. The man's mind was evidently filled with pleasant thoughts, for ever and anon a smile would flit across his face, as though he dwelt upon the surprised look of his daughter when she would behold him. These agreeable anticipations, which had taken the place for the moment of the sterner purposes which had of late engrossed him, were only thrust out by something ...

— The Fifth of November - A Romance of the Stuarts • Charles S. Bentley

... form, we reach the crucial question, what initiates the dream? This is by no means a mere purposeless thronging of visual images as occasionally happens in the period preceding sleep when faces, forms and scenes flit aimlessly before the mind's eye, some bare replicas of stimulations of the eye from without, others the attendant visual images of past thoughts and experiences and their distorted combination. Somewhat closer to actual dreaming is the rise of images accompanying present ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... Indians—father and two sons—and, with provisions for three days, commenced the descent of the river of rapids. How we shot down the hissing waters in that tiny craft! How fast we left the wooded shores behind us, and saw the-lonely isles flit by as the powerful current swept us like ...

— The Great Lone Land - A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America • W. F. Butler

... abroad, and teach it rather A tune to drown the ballads of thy father. For thou hast nought to cure his fame, But tune and noise, and eccho of his shame. A rogue by statute, censured to be whipt, Cropt, branded, flit, ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. • Theophilus Cibber

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