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The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile.
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A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
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The state or quality of being flighty.
v.
A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
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A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
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A flight of birds.
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The act of flying; flight.
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The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.
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A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
v. t.
To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
adv.
In a flighty manner.
a.
Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.
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A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
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A scampering; a hasty flight.
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Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.
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Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.
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High flight; elevation.
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Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
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Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
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A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
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