Definition of fly

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Fly (v. i.) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch..

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March :: March (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales..
Yearling :: Yearling (n.) An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses..
Cloud :: Cloud (n.) A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor..
Expire :: Expire (v. i.) To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.
Wicked :: Wicked (a.) Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp..
Facing :: Facing (n.) The finishing of any face of a wall with material different from that of which it is chiefly composed, or the coating or material so used..
Ponvolant :: Ponvolant (n.) A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge..
Altivolant :: Altivolant (a.) Flying high.
Scat :: Scat (interj.) Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.
Fly :: Fly (v. t.) To hunt with a hawk.
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
Emication :: Emication (n.) A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns..
Butterfly :: Butterfly (n.) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
Rise :: Rise (n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
Check :: Check (v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds..
Square :: Square (n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers..
Currant :: Currant (n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery..
Voice :: Voice (n.) Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.
Mount :: Mount (v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry..
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