A shadow flits before me. --Tennyson.
2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. --Dryden.
3. 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.
4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot.
& Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Jamieson.
5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
And the free soul to flitting air resigned.
--Dryden.