Definition of flight

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Flight (n.) 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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Volery :: Volery (n.) A flight of birds.
Grise :: Grise (n.) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..
Flighted :: Flighted (a.) Feathered; -- said of arrows.
Landing :: Landing (n.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another..
Hegira :: Hegira (n.) The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed..
Attempt :: Attempt (v. t.) To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight..
Rout :: Rout (n.) 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..
Revolt :: Revolt (v. t.) To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
Skedaddle :: Skedaddle (v. i.) To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away..
Staith :: Stairway (n.) A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.
Swarm :: Swarm (v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer..
Stringy :: Stringpiece (n.) One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs..
Dermopteran :: Dermopteran (n.) An insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig..
Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Airy :: Airy (a.) Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial; as, an airy flight..
Icarian :: Icarian (a.) Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight..
Stampede :: Stampede (v. t.) A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic..
Flightily :: Flightily (adv.) In a flighty manner.
Light :: Light (v. i.) To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect..
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