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A bird. See Figpecker.

Straight, as if in a line; as, the filarial flight of birds.

A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidæ.

A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.

A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.

The talons of a bird of prey. [Obs.] More light than culver in the falcon's fist. Spenser.

To flutter, as a bird. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.

Any bird of the genus Flatyrynchus. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

pe; to variegate; to dapple. Both flecked with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.

To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight. The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves. L'Estrange.

A young bird just fledged.

Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. Chaucer.

The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.

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.…

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. A shadow flits before me. Tennyson.

Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.

A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.

To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.