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door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a hou…

l working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.

One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.

of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitæ, or Dromæognathæ.

They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.

To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.

Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior.

A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly Review.

High flight; elevation. [Obs.] Johnson. Gay Lussac's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the sulphuric acid process, to absorb (by means of concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower, be…

rack; trace. [Obs.] Efface all tract of its traduction. Sir T. Browne. But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract behind. Shak.

The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship." Ray.

domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.

conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey.

Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay.

st Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.

o push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight. Pope.

" Milton. He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; His vans no longer could his flight sustain. Dryden.

A flight of birds. [R.] Locke.

The act of flying; flight. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms. Fiery darts in flaming volleys flew. Milton. Each volley tells that thousands cease to breathe. Byron.