Sc. [var. of FLOCHT.]
1. A spreading out, as of wings for flight; a fluttering or agitated movement; a commotion.
1821. Galt, Annals of Parish, vii. 75. It was burnt to the very ground, nothing was spared but what the servants in the first flaught gathered up in a hurry and ran with. Ibid. (1822), Sir A. Wylie, II. i. 5. Getting up wi’ a great flaught of his arms, like a goose wi’ its wings jumping up a stair.
2. A flock of birds flying together; a flight.
1818. Edin. Mag., Aug., 155/1. In a doup, by cam thousan’s o’ milk-white hunds, nae bigger nor whittrets, an’ souchan as gin they had been a flaucht o’ dows.
