These ``flytings'' consisted of alternate torrents of
sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the
combatants. --Saintsbury.
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.
2. A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov.
Eng.]
A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and
it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to
move away. --Jeffrey.