Like the night owl's lazy flight. --Shak.
2. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or
expected evil; hasty departure.
Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
--Matt. xxiv.
20.
Fain by flight to save themselves. --Shak.
3. Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa?ing; as, a
flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had
been happy. --Byron.
His highest flights were indeed far below those of
Taylor. --Macaulay.
4. A number of beings or things passing through the air
together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company;
the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced
in one season; as, a flight of arrows. --Swift.
Swift flights of angels ministrant. --Milton.
Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and
tempestuous gusts. --Shak.
5. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
--Parker.
6. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of
shooting with it. See {Shaft}. [Obs.]
Challenged Cupid at the flight. --Shak.
Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that
they have. --Beau. & Fl.
7. The husk or glume of oats. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.