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The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne.

The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau. & Fl.

In a flirting manner.

Unsteadiness; levity; lightness. [Obs.] Bp. Hopkins.

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.

Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

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…

Fustiness; mustiness. [Obs.]

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.

A little fort; a fortlet. [Obs.]

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.