Defn: To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies."
Gosson.
FLISK
Flisk, n.
Defn: A caper; a spring; a whim. [Scot.]
FLIT
Flit, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitting.] Etym:
[OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta,
Dan. flytte. Fleet, v. i.]
1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. A shadow flits before me. Tennyson.
2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. Dryden.
3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate. It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. Hooker.
4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Wright. Jamieson.
5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. And the free soul to flitting air resigned. Dryden.
FLIT
Flit, a.