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Flight :: Flight (n.) The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..

Flight :: Flight (n.) Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly..

Flight :: 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..

Flight :: Flight (n.) A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.

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

Flight :: Flight (n.) The husk or glume of oats.

Flight-shot :: Flight-shot (n.) The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile..

Flighted :: Flighted (a.) Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition.

Flighted :: Flighted (a.) Feathered; -- said of arrows.

Flighter :: Flighter (n.) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor..

Flightily :: Flightily (adv.) In a flighty manner.

Flightiness :: Flightiness (n.) The state or quality of being flighty.

Flighty :: Flighty (a.) Fleeting; swift; transient.

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..

Profligacy :: Profligacy (a.) The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.

Profligate :: Profligate (a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered.

Profligate :: Profligate (a.) Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch..

Profligate :: Profligate (n.) An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.

Profligate :: Profligate (v. t.) To drive away; to overcome.

Profligately :: Profligately (adv.) In a profligate manner.

Profligateness :: Profligateness (n.) The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.

Profligation :: Profligation (n.) Defeat; rout; overthrow.