a. Obs. rare–1. [Cf. prec. and FLICKERING.] = FLICKERING 3.
1674. N. Fairfax, A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World, 135. ’Tis but odde to think how such a flickering skipjackly thing as that [i.e., motion] is, which is always so much upon the snatches, that no body knows where to have it, should be bound to the behaviour of such a grave stayd thing as time is.
