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A grand division of birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.

e anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.

Flying around. The circumvolant troubles of humanity. G. Macdonald.

The act of flying round. [R.]

A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor. "A thick cloud of incense." Ezek. viii. 11.

imbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.

A mate, companion, or associate. And turned my flying comrades to the charge. J. Baillie. I abjure all roofs, and choose . . . To be a comrade with the wolf and owl. Shak.

Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects. Others feed only in the twilight, as bats and owls, and are called crepuscular. Whewell.

An order of flying, dromTinamou.

rge European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.

of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard.

To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails. Dryden. Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. Prescott. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Tennyson.

ark for identification; a distinguishing mark. Money is said to have no earmark. Wharton. Flying, he [a slave] should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark. Robynson (More's Utopia). A set of intellectual ideas . . . have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor. Burrow.…

The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. [Obs.] Boyle.

The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.

A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation. Sir T. Browne.

A flying out or up. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish.

To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden.

The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. Like the night owl's lazy flight. Shak.