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ity 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.

The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon. Swift.

To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

To flutter; to move quickly; as, to flitter the cards. [R.] Lowell.

A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.

A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees. McElrath.

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

from 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.

Unstable; fluttering. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A short, sharp note, as of a bird or insect. "The chirp of flitting bird." Bryant.

To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser.

A little piece; a flitter; a flinder. [Obs.] Where's the Frenchman Alas, he's all fitters. Beau. & Fl.

To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. Milton.

A flitch; as, a flick of bacon.

See Flittermouse.

A bat; a flittermouse.

ection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument. He followed with his eyes the flitting shade. Dryden.