flight sb. (1 cf. ‘You must haue diuerse shaftes of one flight, fethered with diuerse winges, for diuerse windes,’ Ascham ‘Toxophilus’, 1545)
1.
“of the
self-same ,” having the same power of flight, applied
to arrows of equal size and weight Mer.V. I. i. 142.
2.
flock (of birds)
Tit. V. iii. 68; transf.
company (of angels) Ham. V. ii.
374.
3.
long-distance
shooting with special arrows called ‘flights’ or ‘flight-arrows’
Ado I. i. 40*
“challenged Cupid at the
flight.”
