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Flight   /flaɪt/   Listen
noun
Flight  n.  
1.
The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. "Like the night owl's lazy flight."
2.
The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure. "Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter." "Fain by flight to save themselves."
3.
Lofty elevation and excursion; a mounting; a soaring; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly. "Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy." "His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor."
4.
A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows. "Swift flights of angels ministrant." "Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts."
5.
A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
6.
A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. (Obs.) "Challenged Cupid at the flight." "Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have."
7.
The husk or glume of oats. (Prov. Eng.)
8.
A trip made by or in a flying vehicle, as an airplane, spacecraft, or aeronautical balloon.
9.
A scheduled flight (8) on a commercial airline; as, the next flight leaves at 8 o'clock.
Flight feathers (Zool.), the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird.
To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout.
to take a flight, to make a trip in an airplane, especially a scheduled flight (9).
Synonyms: Pair; set. See Pair.





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"Flight" Quotes from Famous Books



... superb night. It was scarcely possible to discern surrounding objects, they seemed to be covered with a veil, that imagination might be permitted to take a loftier flight. The gardens, terraced on the side of a mountain, sloped down, platform after platform, to the banks of the Seine, and the eye took in the many windings of the stream covered with islets green and picturesque. These variations in the landscape made up a thousand pictures which gave to ...
— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac
... disparity in size and color, the black-billed species has certain peculiarities that remind one of the passenger pigeon. His eye, with its red circle, the shape of his head, and his motions on alighting and taking flight, quickly suggest the resemblance; though in grace and speed, when on the wing, he is far inferior. His tail seems disproportionately long, like that of the red thrush, and his flight among the trees is very still, contrasting strongly with ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs
... As-You-Like-It, which I had mentioned in my letter to Lady Adeline as containing the one bright spot in that gloomy abode, was an addition tacked on to the end of the house, and evidently an afterthought. It was entered by a flight of shallow steps from the hall, and was above the level of the public road, which ran close past that end of the house, the grounds and approach being on the other side. It was lighted by three high ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... the opening of this narrative, just after the battle of Boyne Water had ruined the hopes of the Stewarts in Ireland, Sir Ulick Burke had attended James II. in his flight from Waterford; and his wife had followed him, attended by her two faithful servants, Patrick Callaghan, and his wife Honor, carrying her mistress's child on her bosom, and ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... colony under observation. Crouching in the sun, near a burrow, she waits. As soon as the Halictus arrives from her harvesting, her legs yellow with pollen, the Gnat darts forth and pursues her, keeping behind her in all the turns of her oscillating flight. At last, the Bee suddenly dives indoors. No less suddenly the other settles on the mole-hill, quite close to the entrance. Motionless, with her head turned towards the door of the house, she waits for the ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre


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