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- English Word Flight Definition A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
- English Word Flight Definition A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
- English Word Flight Definition The husk or glume of oats.
- English Word Flight-shot Definition The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile.
- English Word Flighted Definition Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.
- English Word Flighted Definition Feathered; -- said of arrows.
- English Word Flighter Definition A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
- English Word Flightily Definition In a flighty manner.
- English Word Flightiness Definition The state or quality of being flighty.
- English Word Flighty Definition Fleeting; swift; transient.
- English Word Flighty Definition Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
- English Word Flimflam Definition A freak; a trick; a lie.
- English Word Flimsily Definition In a flimsy manner.
- English Word Flimsiness Definition The state or quality of being flimsy.
- English Word Flimsy Definition Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
- English Word Flimsy Definition Thin or transfer paper.
- English Word Flimsy Definition A bank note.
- English Word Flinch Definition To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
- English Word Flinch Definition To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
- English Word Flinch Definition The act of flinching.