Sc. Obs. Also 6–7 flought. See also FLAUGHT sb.2 [app. repr. an OE. *flohta, parallel with the -ti stem flyht, FLIGHT sb.1 4.] A state of agitation or excitement. Chiefly in phrases in, on flocht, in a flocht, in a flutter. Cf. FLIGHT sb.1 4.

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1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xxvii. 66. Thair hairtis wer baith on flocht.

2

1596.  Burel, Pass. Pilgrimer, II. 27.

        Feir pat my hart in sick a flocht,
It did me mutch mischeif,
And ay the mair of hir I thocht,
The greter grew my greif.

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1641.  R. Baillie, Lett. & Jrnls. (1841), I. 392. These horrible designes breaking out, all the citie was in a flought.

4

  b.  ‘Fluctuation, constant variation’ (Jam.).

5

1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xxiv.

        Full oft I mvss and hes in thocht
How this fals warld is ay on flocht,
Quhair no thing ferme is nor degest.

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