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i. [Sc., perhaps connected with flicker or flutter.] To flutter, quiver, or throb; run with outspread arms, as children to those to whom they are much attached. Th' expectant wee things, toddlin', stacher thro To meet their dad, wi flichter in noise and glee. Burns, Cottar's Saturday Night. flick1 (flik), e. t. [Prob. an attenuated form of flack.] To strike lightly with a quick jerk, as with a whip or the finger; flip: as, to flick off a fly from a horse. At a state christening the lady who held the infant was tired and looked unwell, and the Prince of Wales asked permi ion for her to sit down. "Let her stand," said the Queen, flicking the snuff off her sleeve. Thackeray, Four Georges, George III. Near him, leaning listle ly against the wall, stood a strong-built countryman, flicking , with a worn-out hunting-whip, the top-boot that adorned his right foot. Dickens , Pickwick, xlii. flick1 (flik), n. [ Above hire heed hire doves fleckering . Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1964. Certain little birds only were heard to warble out their sweet notes, and to flicker up and downe the greene trees of the gardens. North , tr. of Plutarch, p. 834. The tuneful lark already stretch'd her wing, And flickering on her nest, made short e ays to sing. Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 123. 2. To fluctuate or waver, as the light of a torch in the wind; undergo rapid and irregular changes. Thei reised theire baners a-lofte that flekered in the wynde, and the bright sonne smote vpon the bright armurs that it glistered so bright that merveile was to beholden. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 324. A chain-drooped lamp was flickering by each door. Keats , Eve of St. Agnes, st, 40. Carriage wheels whirled flickering along the beach, seaming its smoothne noisele ly, as if muffled. Harper's Mag . , LXXVI. 737. It was the sight of that Lord Arundel Who struck, in heat, the child he loved so well; And the child's reason flickered and did die. M. Arnold, A Picture at New stead. 3. To scintillate; sparkle. The wreath of radiant fire On flickering Phœbus' front. Shak., Lear, ii. flicker 41. To act lovingly; bestow care es. IMG:content-1493.jpg:[blocks in formation] and though Chaucer, Parson's Tale. There is a series of these arms at right angles to The fliers and the cylinder are all made from an alloy of copper and tin called gun - metal. =Syn. 2. Glimmer, Gleam, etc. See glarel , v. i. flicker1t, a . [ME. fliker : see flicker1 , v.] Wa- 5. A single step or a straight flight of steps or vering; unsteady. For thi asked Crist, quether man him soht Als he wer man of fliker thoht. Metr. Homilies (ed. Small), p. 36. flicker1 (flik'er), n. [ flicker1 , v.] The act of flickering or fluttering; a wavering or fluctuating gleam, as of a candle; a flutter.