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FLIT, v.i. [Heb. It is undoubtedly from the same root as fleet, which see.]
FLIT, a. Nimble; quick; swift. Obs. [See Fleet.]
To move with celerity 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. To flutter; to rove on the wing.
Dryden. To pass rapidly, as a light substance,
from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. Hooker. To remove from one place or habitation to
another.
[Scot. *** Prov. Eng.] Wright. Jamieson. To be unstable] to be easily or often
moved.
And the free soul to flitting air resigned. Dryden. Nimble; quick; swift.
[Obs.] See Fleet.
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