v. Obs. Forms: see FLY v.1 [OE. tofléoʓan, f. TO-2 + fléoʓan, FLY v.1; zefliogan, MHG. zevliegen.] intr. To fly in different directions, to be dispersed in flight; also, to fly to pieces, be shattered.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 188. Sonn hyt tollyð [v.r. flihð]. Ibid., III. 34. Woden … sloh ða þa næddran þæt heo on viiii to-fleah.
c. 1205. Lay., 28668. Þa cnihtes alle … Þa weoren wide to-floȝen.
13[?]. Cast. Love (Halliw.), 1559. The stones woll breke and all to-flyn.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 35. Þe giestes and þe bemes of þe soler al to fligh, and þe soler fil doun.
