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  • English Word Flicker Definition To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
  • English Word Flicker Definition To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.
  • English Word Flicker Definition The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
  • English Word Flicker Definition The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
  • English Word Flickered Definition of Flicker
  • English Word Flickering Definition of Flicker
  • English Word Flickeringly Definition In a flickering manner.
  • English Word Flickermouse Definition See Flittermouse.
  • English Word Flicking Definition of Flick
  • English Word Flidge Definition Fledged; fledge.
  • English Word Flidge Definition To become fledged; to fledge.
  • English Word Flier Definition One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
  • English Word Flier Definition A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).
  • English Word Flier Definition See Flyer, n., 5.
  • English Word Flier Definition See Flyer, n., 4.
  • English Word Flies Definition of Fly
  • English Word Flight Definition The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
  • English Word Flight Definition The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.
  • English Word Flight Definition Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
  • English Word Flight Definition 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.
  • English Word Flight Definition A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
  • English Word Flight Definition A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.
  • English Word Flight Definition The husk or glume of oats.
  • English Word Flight-shot Definition The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile.
  • English Word Flighted Definition Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.
  • English Word Flighted Definition Feathered; -- said of arrows.
  • English Word Flighter Definition A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
  • English Word Flightily Definition In a flighty manner.
  • English Word Flightiness Definition The state or quality of being flighty.
  • English Word Flighty Definition Fleeting; swift; transient.