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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To flutter; to rove on the wing.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.</def>

<blockquote>It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did <b>flit</b> out of one body into some other. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To remove from one place or habitation to another.</def> <mark>[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Wright. Jamieson.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.</def>

<blockquote>And the free soul to <b>flitting</b> air resigned. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flit</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Flit</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Nimble; quick; swift. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> See <er>Fleet</er>.</def>

<h1>Flitch</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Flitch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Flitches</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[OE. <ets>flicche</ets>, <ets>flikke</ets>, AS. <ets>flicce</ets>, akin to Icel. <ets>flikki</ets>; cf. Icel. <ets>fl\'c6k</ets> flap, tatter; perh. akin to E. <ets>fleck</ets>. Cf. <er>Flick</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon.</def>

<i>Swift.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Flite</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Flite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>fl\'c6tan</ets> to strive, contend, quarrel; akin to G. <ets>fleiss</ets> industry.]</ety> <def>To scold; to quarrel.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<i>Grose.</i>

<h1>Flitter</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Flit"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To flutter.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Flitter</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Flit"ter</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To flutter; to move quickly; <as>as, to <ex>flitter</ex> the cards</as>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Lowell.</i>

<h1>Flitter</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Flit"ter</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. G. <ets>flitter</ets> spangle, tinsel, <ets>flittern</ets> to make a tremulous motion, to glitter. Cf. <er>Flitter</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <def>A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.</def>

<h1>Flittermouse</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Flit"ter*mouse`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Flitter</ets>, v.i. + <ets>mouse</ets>; cf. G. <ets>fledermaus</ets>, OHG. <ets>fledarm<?/s</ets>. Cf. <er>Flickermouse</er>, <er>Flindermouse</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A bat; -- called also <altname>flickermouse</altname>, <altname>flindermouse</altname>, and <altname>flintymouse</altname>.</def>