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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

... and sodden street, To and fro, Flit the fever-stricken feet Of the freshers as they meet, Come and go, Ever buying, buying, buying Where the shopmen stand supplying, Vying, vying All they know, While the Autumn lies a-dying Sad and low As the price of summer suitings when the winter breezes ...

— Green Bays. Verses and Parodies • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... I am a woman of little purpose, for I intended to flit here like a swallow and as noiselessly flit again, accomplishing a political trifle for you meanwhile, of which you never should be the wiser. But alas! I am tormented by the idea that you never will know, that in this great crisis of your career, you think me indifferent when I understand ...

— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton

... happy moths that now flit and hover From the blossom of white to the blossom of red, Take heed, for I was a lordly lover Till the little day of my life had sped; As straight as a pine-tree, a golden head, And eyes as blue as an austral bay. Ladies, when loosing your evening array, Reflect, ...

— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore

... take us into the dense forest among mocking echoes from, the life outside; others show us the trolls tobogganing down the highest peaks of Norway; in some we feel human souls hovering over reefs; in others, memories of the old sun-lit land flit before us; but in none do we meet with sentimentalism, despondency, or disconsolateness." But with their weird and minor strains, and their odd jumps from low tones to high, on first acquaintance they strike the hearer ...

— Norwegian Life • Ethlyn T. Clough

... species, fleet and venturesome, to whom two miles and a half of "salt, estranging sea" cannot be any check, certainly do not use the island for nesting as birds of "innocent and quiet minds" might. Gauze-winged butterflies flit across the channel, occasionally in great numbers. What law restrains virile birds from ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

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