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Pair :: Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. A pair of beads. Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. Four pair of stairs. Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].

Ornithomancy :: Ornithomancy (n.) Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc..

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..

Runaway :: Runaway (a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage..

Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight..

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

Short :: Short (superl.) Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight..

Halfpace :: Halfpace (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

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..

Hum :: Hum (n.) A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz..

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

Overfly :: Overfly (v. t.) To cross or pass over by flight.

Rout :: Rout (v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout..

Skein :: Skein (n.) A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).

Frolic :: Frolic (n.) A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth..

Wing :: Wing (v. t.) To transport by flight; to cause to fly.

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

Winder :: Winder (n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer..

Garish :: Garish (a.) Gay to extravagance; flighty.

Wing :: Wing (n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming..

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