FLYTED

Verb

flyted

simple past tense and past participle of flyte

Anagrams

• deftly

Source: Wiktionary


FLYTE

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



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