flite

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flite, v. i. [AS. flītan to strive, contend, quarrel; akin to G. fleiss industry.].

To scold; to quarrel. Grose. [1913 Webster]

flite, n. [AS. flīt. See Flite.].

Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling.

"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." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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