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To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.

One who, or that which, flutters.

In a fluttering manner.

In a flutter; agitated.

To flutter over.

On the wing; flying; fluttering. Wallace.

To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey. "Kites that bait and beat." Shak.

A little banner, flag, or streamer. [Written also bannerol.] From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.

To flutter as a hawk; to bait. [Obs.] Bacon.

tately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. -- To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. -- To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. -- To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.…

mpartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.

To flutter, as a bird. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.

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

tion; hence, a jeer. Several little flirts and vibrations. Addison. With many a flirt and flutter. E. A. Poe.

To flutter; to rove on the wing. Dryden.

To flutter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.

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

mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure. To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.