Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flitting \Flitt"ing\, Flytting \Flytt"ing\, n.
   Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical
   contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th
   century. [Obs. or Scot.]

         These ``flytings'' consisted of alternate torrents of
         sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the
         combatants.                              --Saintsbury.

Flit \Flit\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Flitting}.] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel.
   flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. [root]84. Cf. {Fleet}, v.
   i.]
   1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a
      rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits
      away; a cloud flits along.

            A shadow flits before me.             --Tennyson.

   2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. --Dryden.

   3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to
      another; to remove; to migrate.

            It became a received opinion, that the souls of men,
            departing this life, did flit out of one body into
            some other.                           --Hooker.

   4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot.
      & Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Jamieson.

   5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.

            And the free soul to flitting air resigned.
                                                  --Dryden.

Flitting \Flit"ting\, n.
   1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.

   2. A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov.
      Eng.]

            A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and
            it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to
            move away.                            --Jeffrey.

Source : WordNet®

flit
     n 1: a sudden quick movement [syn: {dart}]
     2: a secret move (to avoid paying debts); "they did a moonlight
        flit"
     [also: {flitting}, {flitted}]

flit
     v : move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart [syn: {flutter},
          {fleet}, {dart}]
     [also: {flitting}, {flitted}]

flitting
     See {flit}