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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.
adv.
In a flighty manner.
a.
Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.
n.
A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
n.
Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
n.
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.
n.
A scampering; a hasty flight.
v.
A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
n.
The state or quality of being flighty.
v. t.
To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
n.
A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
n.
A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
n.
The act of flying; flight.
n.
High flight; elevation.
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.
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.
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Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
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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.
n.
A flight of birds.
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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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