[f. FLITTER v.]

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  1.  A flittering motion.

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1892.  Daily News, 17 May, 5/5. The flitter of crows.

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  2.  Comb., as flitter-winged a., having wings that flutter; also fig.

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1820.  Keats, Lamia, I. 394.

        And but the flitter-winged verse must tell,
For truth’s sake, what woe afterwards befel.

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1861.  Lytton & Fane, Tannhäuser, 74.

                        Wheel’d at will
The flitter-wingèd bat round lonely towers.

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