Flit

v. i. [imp. & p. p. FLITTED; p. pr. & vb. n. FLITTING.] [Dan. flytte, Sw. flytta, to remove; Dan. flyde, Sw. flyta, to flow, to glide away; D. vlieden, to flee. See FLEET.] 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, or flits in air; 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 habitation to another. [Scot. and Prov. Eng.] Richardson.
5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.

And the free soul to flitting air resigned. Dryden.