flites
plural of flite
flites
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flite
• filets, fistle, fliest, itself, stifle
Source: Wiktionary
Flite, v. i. Etym: [AS. flitan to strive, contend, quarrel; akin to G. fleiss industry.]
Definition: To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
Flite, Flyte, n. [AS. flit. See Flite.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 March 2025
(noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
