n. The act or power of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation.n. Swift motion in general; rapid movement or passage caused by any propelling force: as, the flight of a missile; a meteor's flight; the flight of a fish toward its prey; the flight of a rapidly revolving wheel.n. A number of beings or things flying or passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in the same season: applied specifically in the old language of English sport to doves and swallows, and in America to pigeons, and also to a swarm of bees.n. Figuratively, an excursion or sally; a passing out of or beyond a fixed course; a mounting or soaring: as, a flight of imagination or fancy; a flight of ambition or of temper.n. In archery: The sport of shooting arrows in the manner now called rovingāthat is, with roving aim instead of at a butt. See rover.n. Shooting with the longbow in general, as distinguished from the use of the crossbow. See flight-arrow.n. A continuous series of steps or stairs; the part of a stairway extending directly from one floor or one landing to another.n. The glume or husk of oats.n. The thin membrane which is detached from the coffee-berry in the process of roasting.n. In the clapper of a bell, the dependent piece or weight below the striking part; the tail.n. In machinery: The inclination of the arm of a crane or of a cat-head.n. A wing or fin; a fan.n. Synonyms 3. See flock, n.Swift in transit.In sporting, belonging to a flight or flock.n. The act of fleeing; the act of running away to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure.To put to flight; rout; frighten away.n. An obsolete spelling of flite.n. In archery: The course of an arrow through the air.n. The distance traversed by an arrow.n. In mach.: A wing or scraper, pushed or pulled through the trough of a conveyer by a chain, to drag the load through it.n. A flat bucket or vane on the periphery of a wheel-pump or on the chain which it drives.n. Same as flyboat.n. In angling, the set of spinning-baits attached by the trace to the reel-line in a spinning-tackle.n. A primary, flight-feather, or remex: a term commonly used by pigeon-fanciers.n. The distance a bird may or does fly; the height at which it flies: in these senses, largely figurative.n. A group of three or more locks situated in such close proximity along a canal that the level of water between any two adjacent locks of the series may economically be raised and lowered to produce a lift: in distinction from locks arranged in isolated pairs with considerable distance between the different pairs.To take flight; fly: an English sporting use.To shoot (wildfowl) in their flight to or from their feeding-grounds.