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Definitions for: Flying
[n] an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"
[adj] done swiftly in or as if in the air; used e.g. of a racing start in which runners are already in motion as they cross the starting line; "a flying start"; "crossed the goal line with a flying leap"
[adj] hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
[adj] of or relating to passage through the air especially aviation; "a flying time of three hours between cities"; "unidentified flying objects"
[adj] designed for swift movement or action; "a flying police squad is trained for quick action anywhere in the city"
[adj] moving swiftly; "fast-flying planes"; "played the difficult passage with flying fingers"
[adj] streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "a fluttering scarf"; "flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze"
[adj] capable of or engaged in flight; "the bat is a flying animal"
Webster (1913) Definition: Fly"ing, a. [From Fly, v. i.]
Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or
rapidly; intended for rapid movement.
Flying army (Mil.) a body of cavalry and infantry, kept in
motion, to cover its own garrisons and to keep the enemy
in continual alarm. --Farrow.
Flying artillery (Mil.), artillery trained to rapid
evolutions, -- the men being either mounted or trained to
spring upon the guns and caissons when they change
position.
Flying bridge, Flying camp. See under Bridge, and
Camp.
Flying buttress (Arch.), a contrivance for taking up the
thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by
ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of
masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid
pier or buttress sufficient to receive the thrust. The
word is generally applied only to the straight bar with
supporting arch.
Flying colors, flags unfurled and waving in the air; hence:
To come off with flying colors, to be victorious; to
succeed thoroughly in an undertaking.
Flying doe (Zo["o]l.), a young female kangaroo.
Flying dragon.
(a) (Zo["o]l.) See Dragon, 6.
(b) A meteor. See under Dragon.
Flying Dutchman.
(a) A fabled Dutch mariner condemned for his crimes to sail
the seas till the day of judgment.
(b) A spectral ship.
Flying fish. (Zo["o]l.) See Flying fish, in the
Vocabulary.
Flying fox (Zo["o]l.), the colugo.
Flying frog (Zo["o]l.), an East Indian tree frog of the
genus Rhacophorus, having very large and broadly webbed
feet, which serve as parachutes, and enable it to make
very long leaps.
Flying gurnard (Zo["o]l.), a species of gurnard of the
genus Cephalacanthus or Dactylopterus, with very large
pectoral fins, said to be able to fly like the flying
fish, but not for so great a distance.
Note: Three species are known; that of the Atlantic is
Cephalacanthus volitans.
Flying jib (Naut.), a sail extended outside of the standing
jib, on the flying-jib boom.
Flying-jib boom (Naut.), an extension of the jib boom.
Flying kites (Naut.), light sails carried only in fine
weather.
Flying lemur. (Zo["o]l.) See Colugo.
Flying level (Civil Engin.), a reconnoissance level over
the course of a projected road, canal, etc.
Flying lizard. (Zo["o]l.) See Dragon, n. 6.
Flying machine, an apparatus for navigating the air; a form
of balloon. -- Flying mouse (Zo["o]l.), the opossum
mouse (Acrobates pygm[ae]us), of Australia.
Note: It has lateral folds of skin, like the flying
squirrels. -- Flying party (Mil.), a body of soldiers
detailed to hover about an enemy. -- Flying phalanger
(Zo["o]l.), one of several species of small marsuupials of
the genera Petaurus and Belideus, of Australia and New
Guinea, having lateral folds like those of the flying
squirrels. The sugar squirrel (B. sciureus), and the
ariel (B. ariel), are the best known; -- called also
squirrel petaurus and flying squirrel. See {Sugar
squirrel}. -- Flying pinion, the fly of a clock. --
Flying sap (Mil.), the rapid construction of trenches (when
the enemy's fire of case shot precludes the method of
simple trenching), by means of gabions placed in
juxtaposition and filled with earth. -- Flying shot, a
shot fired at a moving object, as a bird on the wing. --
Flying spider. (Zo["o]l.) See Ballooning spider. --
Flying squid (Zo["o]l.), an oceanic squid ({Ommastrephes,
or Sthenoteuthis, Bartramii}), abundant in the Gulf
Stream, which is able to leap out of the water with such
force that it often falls on the deck of a vessel. --
Flying squirrel (Zo["o]l.) See Flying squirrel, in the
Vocabulary. -- Flying start, a start in a sailing race
in which the signal is given while the vessels are under
way. -- Flying torch (Mil.), a torch attached to a long
staff and used for signaling at night.
Synonyms: aflare, air(a), fast, fast-flying, flaring, flight, fluttering, hurried, mobile, moving, quick, running(a), waving, winged
See Also: acrobatics, aerobatics, air, air travel, aviation, ballooning, blind flying, blind landing, flyover, flypast, glide, gliding, low level flight, overflight, pass, sailing, sailplaning, soaring, solo, sortie, stunt flying, stunting, terrain flight
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