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flocht
† 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...
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aflocht
† aˈflocht, pred. a., prop. phr. Sc. Obs. [a prep.1 + flocht; also in full on flocht.] In a flutter, agitated.1513 Douglas æneis v. xiii. 37 Venus al on flocht, Amyd hir breist reuoluand mony a thocht. 1536 Bellendene Cron. Scotl. (1821) II. 122 My mind and body is aflocht, specially sen I hard thir...
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floghter
† ˈfloghter, v. Obs. [cf. flocht and flaughter v.] intr. To waver. Hence floghtering, ppl. a.1521 Fisher Eng. Wks. (1876) 313 That we floghter not in the catholike doctryne. Ibid. 334 Against all floghteryng doutfulnes.
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flought
▪ I. † flought, v. Obs. rare—1. [perh. a dial. word, f. OE. *flohta or ON. *flohte (Icel. flótti) flight, f. root of flee v.] intr. To flee, take refuge.1556 Abp. Parker Psalter cxxxix. 7 From thee..how can I fly: or whether shall I flought.▪ II. flought var. form of flocht.
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flaught
▪ I. flaught, n.1 Chiefly Sc. (flɔːt, Sc. flaxt) Also 4–5 flaght(e, 8–9 flaucht. [ME. flaȝt, prob. repr. either OE. *fleaht or ON. *flaht-r (Icel. fláttr, used only in the sense ‘act of flaying’: see Fritzner s.v.); the OTeut. type would be *flahtu-z, f. either of the parallel roots flah-, flak- (Ar...
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flight
▪ I. flight, n.1 (flaɪt) Forms: 1 fliht, flyht, flyð, 2–3 fluht(ü), south. vluht, 3–4 fliȝt, (fliht, flith), 3, 5 flygt, 4–6 flyght(e, (6 fleight, flighte), 5 flyte, 6 Sc. flicht, 3– flight. [OE. flyht masc. = OS. fluht fem. (MDu., Du. vlucht fem.):—OTeut. *fluhti-, f. *flug- weak root of *fleug-an ...
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on
▪ I. on, prep. (ɒn, unstr. ən) Also 1–5 an, 2–5 o, a (see an prep., a prep.1, o prep.1); (3 æn, Orm. onn, 4–5 oon, 5 onne, 5–6 one, un, 6 onn). [OE. an, on = OFris. an, OS. and ODu. ana, an (MDu. ane, an, aen, Du. aan (dial. an), MLG. an, LG. ân, an), OHG. ana, an (MHG. ane, an, Ger. an), ON. á (Nor...
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