Word Meanings - VOLITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of flying; flight. Sir T. Browne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VOLITATION)

• Flight
• Volitation
• departure
• escape
• evasion
• disappearance
• flying
• stampede
• soaring
• begin
• fleeing
• exodus

Related words: (words related to VOLITATION)

• FLEERER
  One who fleers. Beau. & Fl.
• FLIGHTER
  A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• SOARING
  from Soar. -- Soar"ing*ly, adv.
• FLY-FISH
  To angle, using flies for bait. Walton.
• BEGIN
  beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. sq. root31. See Gin to 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God
• FLYFISH
  A California scorpænoid fish , having brilliant colors.
• FLY-CASE
  The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.
• FLEET-FOOT
  Swift of foot. Shak.
• FLEETINGLY
  In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
• FLYING SQUIRREL
  One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds of skin extending from the fore to the hind legs, which enable them to make very long leaps. Note: The species of Pteromys are large, with bushy tails,
• FLEETING
  Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.
• FLEECER
  One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. Prynne.
• FLEET
  To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser. (more info) vlieten to flow, OS. fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. fljota to float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr. plu to swim,
• FLYBANE
  A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom ; fly agaric.
• FLYCATCHER
  One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing. Note: The true flycatchers of the Old World are Oscines, and belong to the family Muscicapidæ, as the spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa grisola). The American
• FLEETEN
  Fleeted or skimmed milk. Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl.
• DISAPPEARANCE
  The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
• FLYING FISH
  A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its large and long pectoral fins. These fishes belong to several species of the genus Exocoetus, and are found in the warmer parts of all the oceans.
• FLIGHTINESS
  The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne. Syn. -- Levity; giddiness; volatility; lightness; wildness; eccentricity. See Levity.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• FIREFLY
  Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridæ. Note: The common American species belong to the genera Photinus and Photuris, in which both sexes are winged. The name is also applied to luminous species of Elateridæ.
• VINEGAR FLY
  Any of several fruit flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.
• GADFLY
  Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies. Note: The sheep gadfly deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larvæ develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species which infests cattle deposits its
• SAWFLY
  Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay
• GORFLY
  A dung fly.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• BLOWFLY
  Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvæ upon meat or other animal products.
• MESOARIUM
  The fold of peritoneum which suspends the ovary from the dorsal wall of the body cavity.
• ALDER FLY
  1. Any of numerous neuropterous insects of the genus Sialis or allied genera. They have aquatic larvæ, which are used for bait. 2. An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.