Definition of flight

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

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Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors..
Speedy :: Speedy (superl.) Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot..
Flightiness :: Flightiness (n.) The state or quality of being flighty.
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..
Struthionine :: Struthiones (n. pl.) In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitae, or Dromaeognathae..
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..
Rapid :: Rapid (a.) Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion..
Halfpace :: Halfpace (n.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.
Landing :: Landing (n.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another..
Roller :: Roller (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..
Flight :: Flight (n.) A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
Wing :: Wing (n.) Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing..
Stairhead :: Staircase (n.) A flight of stairs with their supporting framework, casing, balusters, etc..
Hautein :: Hautein (a.) High; -- said of the voice or flight of birds.
Cancelier :: Cancelier (v. i.) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk.
Notornis :: Notornis (n.) A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct..
Scud :: Scud (n.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock..
Wing-handed :: Wing-handed (a.) Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls..
Overfly :: Overfly (v. t.) To cross or pass over by flight.
Light :: Light (v. i.) To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect..
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