The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flit \Flit\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flitting.] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel.
flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. [root]84. Cf. Fleet, v.
i.]
1. 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.
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A shadow flits before me. --Tennyson.
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2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. --Dryden.
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3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to
another; to remove; to migrate.
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It became a received opinion, that the souls of men,
departing this life, did flit out of one body into
some other. --Hooker.
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4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot.
& Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Jamieson.
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5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
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And the free soul to flitting air resigned.
--Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flitting \Flitt"ing\, Flytting \Flytt"ing\, n.
Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical
contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th
century. [Obs. or Scot.]
These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of
sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the
combatants. --Saintsbury.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flitting \Flit"ting\, n.
1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
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2. A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov.
Eng.]
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A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and
it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to
move away. --Jeffrey.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "flitting":
adrift, afloat, airborne, alternating, amorphous, brittle,
capricious, changeable, changeful, circumforaneous, corruptible,
deciduous, desultory, deviable, discursive, divagatory, dizzy,
drifting, dying, eccentric, ephemeral, errant, erratic, evanescent,
fading, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, fleeting, flickering,
flighty, floating, fluctuating, fluttering, fly-by-night, flying,
footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fragile, frail, freakish,
fugacious, fugitive, gadding, giddy, gliding, gypsy-like, gypsyish,
hovering, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent,
inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insubstantial, irregular,
irresolute, irresponsible, jet-propelled, landloping, mazy,
meandering, mercurial, migrational, migratory, momentary, moody,
mortal, mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing,
perishable, rambling, ranging, restless, roaming, rocket-propelled,
roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short-lived,
shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, straggling, straying, strolling,
temporal, temporary, traipsing, transient, transitive, transitory,
transmigratory, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled,
undependable, undisciplined, undurable, unenduring, unfixed,
unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable,
unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating,
vagabond, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous,
volant, volatile, volitant, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery,
wavy, wayward, whimsical, winging, wishy-washy