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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

... air of the silent open country, we would come perhaps in the gathering darkness to a great river lapping and murmuring through the blackened rocks above the ford, and shining like a glorious path in the light of the rising moon. Silently, high above the banks, there would flit through the still air bands of flying foxes awakened for their nightly raid upon the plantain groves; and in the shadows of the further bank there would gleam a sudden light, or the echoes of a hailing voice would rise and then ...

— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith

... Seraphine," remarked the Bishop, gravely, "life is but a mirror which reflects themselves. Other forms and faces may flit by, in the background; dimly seen, scarcely noticed. There is but one face and form occupying the entire foreground. Life is, to such, the mirror which ministers to vanity. Should a husband appear in the picture, he is soon relegated to the background, ...

— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay

... returned the guard, indifferently. "I expect if the truth were known it ought to be by rights. He sure enough thinks it is, though. Why, Uncle Pete, there can't a butterfly flit over these grounds that Adam ain't a yellin' how there's an aeroplane a sailin' around lookin' fer a chance to drop a monkey wrench ...

— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright

... uncertainty, I perceived a ray flit across the gloom and disappear. Another succeeded, which was stronger, and remained for a passing moment. It glittered on the shrubs that were scattered at the entrance, and gleam continued to succeed gleam for a few seconds, till they finally gave ...

— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne

... daughter to despise every thing pertaining to the old brown house, once her childhood home, and where even now the kind-hearted grandmother was busy in preparing for the reception of the invalid. From morning until night did the little active form of Grandma Howland flit from room to room, washing windows which needed no washing, dusting tables on which no dust was lying, and doing a thousand things which she thought would add to the comfort of Rose. On one room in particular did the good old lady bestow more than usual care. 'Twas the "spare chamber," at whose ...

— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes

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