Flit /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitting

1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.

   A shadow flits before me.

2. To flutter; to rove on the wing.
3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.

   It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.

4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.

   And the free soul to flitting air resigned.

1. Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet. [Obs.]