Word Meanings - FLIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. 2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. Dryden. 3. To pass rapidly,

Additional info about word: FLIT

1. 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. 2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. Dryden. 3. 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. 5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. And the free soul to flitting air resigned. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLIT)

• Emigration
• Exodus
• colonization
• flit
• Flutter
• Vibrate
• quiver
• palpitate
• flicker

Related words: (words related to FLIT)

• COLONIZATION
  Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
• VIBRATE
  brandish, vibrate; akin to Skr. vip to tremble, Icel. veifa to wave, 1. To brandish; to move to and fro; to swing; as, to vibrate a sword or a staff. 2. To mark or measure by moving to and fro; as, a pendulum vibrating seconds. 3. To affect with
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• FLICKERMOUSE
  See FLITTERMOUSE
• FLICKER
  1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden. 2. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro.
• QUIVERED
  1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
• EMIGRATIONAL
  Relating to emigration.
• EXODUS
  1. A going out; particularly , the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place. 2. The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of
• QUIVER
  Nimble; active. " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
• COLONIZATIONIST
  A friend to colonization, esp. to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.
• PALPITATE
  To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.
• FLUTTERER
  One who, or that which, flutters.
• QUIVERINGLY
  With quivering motion.
• EMIGRATIONIST
  An advocate or promoter of emigration.
• FLUTTERINGLY
  In a fluttering manner.
• EMIGRATION
  1. The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western. 2. A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German
• FLICKERINGLY
  In a flickering manner.
• AFLICKER
  In a flickering state.
• DEMIGRATION
  Emigration. Bp. Hall.
• REMIGRATION
  Migration back to the place from which one came. Sir M. Hale.
• REVIBRATE
  To vibrate back or in return. -- Re`vi*bra"tion, n.
• EVIBRATE
  To vibrate. Cockeram.
• OVERFLUTTER
  To flutter over.