flitting

noun

1. (form-of, gerund)gerund of flit: the motion of something that flits.

   “the flittings of birds”

   “After the flitting of the bats, / When thickest dark did trance the sky, / She drew the casement-curtain by, / And glanced athwart the glooming flats.”

   “The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.”

2. (Northern-England, Scotland)The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.

   “Uncle Billy came home for the weekend to help with the flitting.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of flit

adj

1. Brief, likely to be of short duration.

   “Poor Margarita's flitting life appeared to concentrate all its powers for this long desired visit, and her eyes seemed to emit a supernatural light, when they were indeed assured that Glentworth stood before her;...”