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Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.] Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot. Shak. To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered. Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. Shak. A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenne…

To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. They take their flight . . . boring to the west. Dryden.

ng embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. Imperfect cadence. (Mus.) See under Imperfect.

A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.

Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. W. Irving.

ss from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

s of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc. The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. Macaulay.

To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [Obs.] Nares. He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced To cancelier. Massinger.

A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand. Grabb. As when a cast of falcons make their flight. Spenser.

. Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. Johnson.

eeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. A. Murpphy.

s, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. Shak. With what complusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low. Milton.

Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted. As confident as is the falcon's flight Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight. Shak.

a rumor. Your eyes shall witness and confirm my tale. Pope. These likelihoods confirm her flight. Shak.

Proved or found guilty; convicted. [Obs.] Shak. Convict by flight, and rebel to all law. Milton.

to trouble. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would but cumber and retard his flight Dryden. Martha was cumbered about much serving. Luke x. 40. Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground Luke xiii. 7. The multiplying variety of arguments, especially frivolous ones, . . . but cumbers the memory. Locke.…

Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened. Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. Dryden.

A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition. He breathed defiance to my ears. Shak.

An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.

Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.