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▪ I. flite, flyte, n. Now dial.|flaɪt|
Forms: 1–3 flít, 3–4, 9 flite, flitt(e, 4–5 flyt, (5 floyt, 7 fleyte), 8 flight, 8– flyte.
[OE. flît str. neut., f. flitan (see next): cf. OFris. and OS. flît (Du. vlijt), OHG. flîȥ (MHG. vlîȥ, Ger. fleiss diligence, zeal.)
The flitt of the Cursor M., where spelling and rime indicate a short vowel, is prob. a parallel formation repr. OE. ᵹeflit.]
†1. Contention, strife, a dispute; also, abuse, an abusive speech. Obs.
c1000Ags. Ps. xlix. [l.] 21 Toᵹeanes sunu modor ðine ðu settest flit. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 43 Ech þat is weorldes frend is ure drihtenes fo, and halt flit wið him. a1300Cursor M. 24537 (Cott.) Quen i..thogh apon þat juus flitt, þe tere fell o min ei. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 93 Na mar moves me thi flyt Than it war a flies byt. 1600in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) IV. 281 Fleytes and pretty taunts.
†b. A contest, struggle. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 421 Þe arc..flote forthe with þe flyt of þe felle wyndez. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 581 The duke of Bedforde..had a great floyt and batayll with dyuers carykkes of Ieane.
2. A scolding-match.
1768Ross Fort. Sheph. i. 111 We'll ablins get a flyte, an' ablins nane. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxix, ‘I think maybe a flyte wi' the auld housekeeper at Monkbarns..would do me some gude.’ 1876Mid. Yorksh. Gloss., There's such a flite going on between them.
▪ II. flite, flyte, v. Now dial.|flaɪt|
Forms: inf. 1–2 flitan, 2–3 fliten, (5 flytin), 3–6, 9 flite, (3 flitte, 5–6 flight, 6 flicht, 9 fleicht, fleyte,) 4– flyte. pa. tense 1 flát, pl. fliton, fleotun, 4 flytte, 4–5 flot(e, 5, 8 flet(t, 5 flayt, 6 flait, 9 dial. flate. pa. pple. 1–3 fliten, 4 flytyn, 6 flyttyn.
[A Com. WGer. str. vb.; OE. flítan = OHG. flíȥȥan to strive (MHG. vlîȥen to be eager; cf. mod.Ger. sich befleissen str., to busy oneself).]
†1. intr. To contend, strive; also, to contend in words, chide, wrangle. Const. against, on, with.
Beowulf 916 (Gr.) Hwilum flitende fealwe stræte mearum mæton. c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xiv. [xix.] 212 Ða fliton him on þa węrgan gastas. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 81 Swo mote we flite togenes ure fule lustes. a1300Cursor M. 7556 (Cott.) [Goliath] þus bigan on him [David] to flite. c1350Will. Palerne 2545 A noþer werkman..gan flite wiþ þat felþe þat formest hadde spoke. c1440Gesta Rom. lxxx. 400 (Add. MS.) Anothere [devil] hade..made hem to chide, ande to flyte, ande feghte. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 720 Thocht mony fuill throw folie with him flyte. 1598Bernard Terence (1607) 89 He did flite or chide with him. 1725Ramsay Gent. Sheph. i. i, Sair, sair she flet wi' me 'tween ilka smack.
fig.13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 950 Þe wyndez..wroþely vp⁓waite & wrastled togeder..flytande loude.
2. To scold. Const. at. Now only Sc. and north.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxiv. 81 The fische wyffis flett and swoir. a1592Greene Alphonsus ii. (Rtldg.) 230/1 Let me die if e'er I flight again. a1605Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 739 Why flait thou, foole? 1794Burns O Steer her up, Gin she take the thing amiss, E'en let her flyte her fill, jo. 1816Scott Old Mort. xvii, ‘Sudna ye hae come faster up yoursells, instead of flyting at huz?’ 1853Reade Chr. Johnstone 70 The men fight..the women fleicht or scold.
b. trans. To chide, scold (a person). Obs. exc. Sc. and north.
14..Psalms Penit. (ed. Ellis 1894) ci. 18 How he was for us falsly fleten [rime-wds. writen, wyten, smyten]. 1848Tales Kirkb. 159 ‘Dinna flyte me, grandfather.’ 1876Mid. Yorksh. Gloss. s.v., ‘He'll flite you if you do.’
3. intr. ‘To debate, to dispute, although without scolding or violent language’ (Jam.). Obs.
a1225Leg. Kath. 721 Me come & fatte hire to fliten wið þe fifti. 15..Declar. in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 267 Off mony thingis they did togedder flyte.
†4. ‘To pray in the language of complaint, or remonstrance’ (Jam.); to complain. Obs.
c1400Melayne 563 Bot forthe he wente, his handis he wrange, And flote with Marye euer amange. c1470Henry Wallace v. 229 Flayt by him self to the Makar off buffe. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 17 Or when I like great Tragedies to tell: Or flyte, or murne my fate. |