Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flite \Flite\, Flyte \Flyte\, n. [AS. fl[=i]t. See {Flite}.]
   Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting;
   wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

         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.                       --Saintsbury.