Found 2 items, similar to flitting.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: flitting flit n 1: a sudden quick movement [syn: dart] 2: a secret move (to avoid paying debts); “they did a moonlight flit” [also: flitting, flitted] flit v : move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart [syn: flutter, fleet, dart] [also: flitting, flitted] flitting See flit
English → English (gcide) Definition: Flitting Flit \Flit\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitting.] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. [root]84. Cf. Fleet, v. i.] 1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. [1913 Webster] A shadow flits before me. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate. [1913 Webster] It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Jamieson. [1913 Webster] 5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. [1913 Webster] And the free soul to flitting air resigned. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Flitting \Flit"ting\, n. 1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering. [1913 Webster] 2. A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster] Flitting \Flitt"ing\, Flytting \Flytt"ing\, n. Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century. [Obs. or Scot.] These “flytings” consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants. --Saintsbury. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]