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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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"Flit" Quotes from Famous Books

... well for you to say," moaned Despard; "you flit about as if you had wings on your feet; while, as for me, it is true I move with equal speed, but so painfully that I wonder my footprints are ...

— Fairy Book • Sophie May

... alcoves of death, in the charnels of time, Where flit the dark spectres of passion and crime, There are triumphs untold, there are martyrs unsung, There are heroes yet silent to speak ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... thought, And does not ask that you should know The love that consecrates you so. No; furtive, awkward, restless, cold, I basely seemed to set at naught That sudden bliss, undreamt, unsought. What must she think, my girl of gold? I dare not ask; and baffled wit Droops—till sweet hopes begin to flit— Like butterflies that brave the cold— ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 • Various

... of right soldierly stuff; but he felt a distinct shiver flit along his back. His past life had not lacked thrilling adventures and strangely varied experiences with desperate men. Usually he met sudden emergencies rather calmly, sometimes with phlegmatic indifference. This passionate outburst on the priest's ...

— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson

... the magic charm of poesy!" rejoined Sah-luma complacently.. "It makes the hours flit like moments, and long days seemed but short hours! ... Nevertheless 'tis time we were within doors and at supper,—for if we start not soon for the Temple, 'twill be difficult to gain an entrance, and I, at any rate, must be early in ...

— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

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