ppl. a. [f. FLIGHT sb.1 + -ED2.]
1. Having a certain flight or speed. Only in drowsy-flighted.
1634. Milton, Comus, 552.
| Till an unusual stop of sudden silence | |
| Gave respit to the drousy flighted steeds, | |
| That draw the litter of close-curtain’d sleep. |
2. Provided with feathers, feathered.
1735. J. Moore, Columbarium, 35. The nine flight Feathers of the Wing ought to be White, otherwise he [the Powter] is said to be foul flighted.
1889. Elvin, Dict. Heraldry, Flighted applied to an arrow denotes that it is feathered.
