What does "flit" mean?
Flit: To flutter; to rove on the wing. Dryden.
Additional senses
- 2.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. Hooker.
- 3.To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Wright. Jamieson.
- 4.To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. And the free soul to flitting air resigned. Dryden.
- 5.Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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