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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.

Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century. [Obs. or Scot.]

In a flitting manner.

Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.

A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.

In a floating manner.

With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.

Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on bal…

e foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on. In ascent, every stfooting and help to the next. Holder.

By forgetting.

Bold; forward; aggressive.

Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.

Constituting the freight or cargo. [Obs.] "The fraughting souls within her." Shak.

Acting the freebooter; practicing freebootery; robbing. Your freebooting acquaintance. Sir W. Scott.

The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.

In a fronting or facing position; opposingly.

A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.

Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.

Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating painsaccompanying locomotor ataxy.

Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. -- Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.