† flocht Sc. Obs.
(flɒxt)
Also 6–7 flought. See also flaught n.2
[app. repr. an OE. *flohta, parallel with the -ti stem flyht, flight n.1 4.]
A state of agitation or excitement. Chiefly in phrases in, on flocht, in a flocht, in a flutter. Cf. flight n.1 4.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxvii. 66 Thair hairtis wer baith on flocht. 1596 J. Burel Pass. Pilgrimer ii. 27 Feir pat my hart in sick a flocht. 1641 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 392 These horrible designes breaking out, all the citie was in a flought. |
b. ‘Fluctuation, constant variation’ (Jam.).
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxiv. 2 This fals warld is ay on flocht, Quhair no thing ferme is nor degest. |