Defn: Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
FLITCH Flitch, n.; pl. Flitches. Etym: [OE. flicche, flikke, AS. flicce, akin to Icel. flikki; cf. Icel. flik flap, tatter; perh. akin to E. fleck. Cf. Flick, n.]
1. The side of a hog salted and cured; a side of bacon. Swift.
2. One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
3. The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. [Eng.]
FLITE
Flite, v. i. Etym: [AS. flitan to strive, contend, quarrel; akin to
G. fleiss industry.]
Defn: To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
FLITE; FLYTE
Flite, Flyte, n. [AS. flit. See Flite.]
Defn: Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
The bird of Pallas has also a good "flyte" on the moral side . . . in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands. Saintsbury.