Flight; exile.

The action of fleeing or running away from, or as from, danger, etc.; hasty departure or retreat, also, an absconding.

? Flight.

Flight.

Flight.

Flight; also, the fact of being a fugitive slave.

The turning of the back for flight; flight, retreat (literal and figurative). ? Obsolete.

An act of running away; spec. an elopement (cf. sense B. 1b).

An act of running away from a place or situation of danger. Chiefly in to make a run for (also †of) it: to run away; to flee (cf. to run for it at run…

The action of fleeing.

A hasty or precipitate retreat or flight; a scurry.

Escape, flight. Esp. in on the lam, on the run; take it on the (or a) lam (see quot. 1935).

U.S. An act of running out, fleeing, or escaping. Cf. sense A. 2.