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

The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Within a flight-shot it inthe valley. Evelyn. Half a flight-shot from the king's oak. Sir W. Scott.

Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition. "Drowsy-flighted steeds." Milton.

A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.

In a flighty manner.

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

Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak.

Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.

To dishonor. "Shall flight abuse your name" Shak.

A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

The science of gliding and soaring flight.

Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region." Milton.

there are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long- continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.

eavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [Obs.]

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

A sudden flight, as to escape creditors. This gentleman was so hopelessly involved that he contemplated a bolt to America -- or anywhere. Compton Reade.