Definition of flight

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Flight (n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft..

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Urania :: Urania (n.) 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..
Calcar :: Calcar (n.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight..
Staith :: Stairway (n.) A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase.
Scud :: Scud (n.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock..
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..
Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting..
Grise :: Grise (n.) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
Fantail :: Fantail (n.) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers..
Harum-scarum :: Harum-scarum (v. t.) Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless.
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..
Hover :: Hover (v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something..
Flighty :: Flighty (a.) 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..
Flighted :: Flighted (a.) Feathered; -- said of arrows.
Revolt :: Revolt (v. t.) To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
Landing :: Landing (n.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another..
Hautein :: Hautein (a.) High; -- said of the voice or flight of birds.
Inglorious :: Inglorious (a.) Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc..
Halfpace :: Halfpace (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.
Stoop :: Stoop (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly..
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