FLIGHTED • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Flighted

... air as to become almost stationary parts of the landscape. The imagination has time to grow acquainted with them; they have not flitted away in a moment. You go up among the clouds and greet these lofty-flighted gulls, and repose confidently with them upon the sustaining atmosphere. Duck's have their haunts along the solitary places of the river, and alight in flocks upon the broad bosom of the overflowed meadows. Their flight is too rapid and determined for the eye to catch enjoyment from it, although ...

— Buds and Bird Voices (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne