flit, flitte, flutte, flyt, flytte

i. & t. [Sw. flytta; Dan. flytte; cf. Icel. flýta =to hasten, flytja = to cause to flit, flytjask =to flit, remove.] A. Intransitive : 1. To remove, to move, to pa from one place to another. "At last it flitted is Whither the soules doe fly of men that live amis." Spenser: F. Q. , I. ii. 19. 2. To pa by, to move along. "The clouds that flit, or slowly float away." Cowper: Retirement, 192. *3. To pa away; to be transient. "How pa ing is the beauty of fleshly bodies! more flit ting than the mouable floures of summer."-Chaucer: Testament of Love , bk. ii. *4. To depart. "The life did flit away out of her nest." Spenser: F. Q., II. vii. 66. trees. *flit-ti-ne , *fit-ti-ne e, s. [English flitty ; -ne .] The quality or state of being flitty; instability. filt-ting, pr. par., a. & 8. [FLIT, v.] ting manner. *flit-ty, *flit-tie, a . [Eng. flit ; -ty.] Unstable, unsteady. *flix, *flixe (1), s . [FLUX.) The flux, the dysentery. *flix (2), s . [Allied to flax or flox (q. v.).] The down of animals. flix'-weed, s . [O. Eng. flix =flux, and weed . So called because it was once believed that its seeds drunk with wine, or water from a smith's forge, stopped the bloody flux (dysentery).] Bot .: Sisymbrium sophia , a kind of hedge mustard. It is a cruciferous plant with pinnatifid leaves and yellow flowers, found in waste places here and abroad. It is called also Flixwort (q. v.). flix'-wõrt, s . [O. Eng. flix =flux, and wort .] Bot.: The same as FLIXWEED (q. v.). *flo, fila, s . [A. S. flá.] An arrow.