'Flite' definitions:
Definition of 'Flite'
From: GCIDE
- Flite \Flite\, v. i. [AS. fl[imac]tan to strive, contend, quarrel; akin to G. fleiss industry.] To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.] --Grose. [1913 Webster] Flite
Definition of 'Flite'
From: GCIDE
- Flite \Flite\, Flyte \Flyte\, n. [AS. fl[imac]t. See Flite.] 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]