Flite

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.]