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FLIT, Heb. It is undoubtedly from the same root as fleet, which see.

1. To fly away with a rapid motion to dart along to move with celerity through the air. We say, a bird flits away, or flits in air a cloud flits along.
2. To flutter to rove on the wing.
3. To remove to migrate to pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another.

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

4. In Scotland, to remove from one habitation to another.
5. To be unstable to easily or often moved.

An the free soul to flitting air resigned.

FLIT, a. Nimble quick swift. Obs. See Fleet.

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Entry for 'Flit'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​f/flit.html.
 
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