flight feather (flitferi"er)

See feather. It is easy to understand that, durable as are the flight feathers, they do not last forever, and are besides very subject to accidental breakage, the consequence of which would be the crippling of the bird. Encyc . Brit ., III. 776. flight-headt (flit'hed), n . A wild-headed person. Nares . Some insurrection hath been in War wicks hire, and began the very same day that the plot should have been executed; some Popish flight - heads thinking to do wonders. Letter, dated 1603. flightily flightily (fli'ti-li), adv. In a flighty, wild, capricious, or imaginative manner.