Flight

The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure.

Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soa/ing; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.

A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.

A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.

A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft.

The husk or glume of oats.

passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"