Word Meanings - FLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

ONG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj, Sw. flyga, Dan. flyve, Goth. us- flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about, and perh. to L. pluma 1. To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird. 2. To move through the air or before the wind; esp.,

Additional info about word: FLY

ONG. fliogan, G. fliegen, Icel. flj, Sw. flyga, Dan. flyve, Goth. us- flaugjan to cause to fly away, blow about, and perh. to L. pluma 1. To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird. 2. To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse. 3. To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job v. 7. 4. To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies. Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race. Milton. The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on. Bryant. 5. To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee. Fly, ere evil intercept thy flight. Milton. Whither shall I fly to escape their hands Shak. 6. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart. To fly about , to change frequently in a short time; -- said of the wind. -- To fly around, to move about in haste. -- To fly at, to spring toward; to rush on; to attack suddenly. -- To fly in the face of, to insult; to assail; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct opposition to; to resist. -- To fly off, to separate, or become detached suddenly; to revolt. -- To fly on, to attack. -- To fly open, to open suddenly, or with violence. -- To fly out. To rush out. To burst into a passion; to break out into license. -- To let fly. To throw or drive with violence; to discharge. "A man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim." Addison. To let go suddenly and entirely; as, to let fly the sheets.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLY)

• Avoid
• Quit
• shun
• abandon
• desert
• forsake
• relinquish
• fly
• eschew
• elude
• dodge
• escape
• shirk
• Dash
• Burl
• cast
• throw
• subvert
• detrude
• drive
• rush
• send
• speed
• dart
• scatter
• strike
• course
• Decamp
• Start
• bolt
• abscond
• Escape
• Elude
• decamp
• flee
• evade
• avoid
• Hie
• Fly
• haste

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• SPERMATOCYTE
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• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• SPERMATIC
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• SHIRKER
  One who shirks. Macaulay.
• SPERMATICAL
  Spermatic.
• ABSCOND
  1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. 2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• SPECTROGRAPH
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• SPECK
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• SPECE
  Species; kind. Chaucer.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• FORSAKE
  1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to
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• SPEED COUNTER
  A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter.
• ESCHEW
  1. To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of. They must not only eschew evil, but do good. Bp. Beveridge. 2. To escape from; to avoid. He who obeys, destruction shall eschew. Sandys.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• SPENCE
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• SPERMATOZOOID
  A spermatozoid.
• ASPER
  Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon.
• ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
  Producing one seed only in a seed pod.
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  Ill desert. Addison.
• PRELUDE
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• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OOSPERM; OOESPERM
  The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour.
• DISPENSE
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• MISPENSE
  See HALL
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  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
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