Loading...

KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Fluttereth

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Flutter

FLUT'TER, verb intransitive

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 - Deuteronomy 32:11.

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 transitive

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.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Fluttered

FLUT'TERED, participle passive Agitated; confused; disordered.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Fluttering

FLUT'TERING, participle present tense Flapping the wings without flight or with short flights; hovering; fluctuating; agitating; throwing into confusion.

FLUT'TERING, noun The act of hovering, or flapping the wings without flight; a wavering agitation.