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Webster 1913 Edition
Flutter
Flut′ter
,Verb.
T.
1.
To vibrate or move quickly;
as, a bird
. flutters
its wings2.
To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
Like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered
your Volscians in Corioli. Shakespeare
Flut′ter
,Noun.
1.
The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration;
as, the
. flutter
of a fan The chirp and
flutter
of some single bird Milnes. .
2.
Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
Pope.
Flutter wheel
, a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; – so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.
Webster 1828 Edition
Flutter
FLUT'TER
, v.i.1.
To move or flap the wings rapidly, without flying, or with short flights; to hover.As an eagle stirreth up her next, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings - Deut. 32.
2.
To move about briskly, irregularly or with great bustle and show, without consequence.No rag, no scrap of all the beau or wit, that once so fluttered, and that once so writ.
3.
To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as a fluttering fan; a fluttering sail.4.
To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to fluctuate; to be in uncertainty.How long we fluttered on the wings of doubtful success.
His thoughts are very fluttering and wandering.
FLUT'TER
,Verb.
T.
1.
To drive in disorder. [Little used.]2.
To hurry the mind; to agitate.3.
To disorder; to throw into confusion.FLUT'TER
,Noun.
1.
Quick and irregular motion; vibration; undulation; as the flutter of a fan.2.
Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind.3.
Confusion; disorder; irregularity in position.