aflight

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) Flying.
 * 2) * 1874, (as Dod Grile), “The Legend of Immortal Truth” in Cobwebs, London: “Fun” Office, ca. 1884, p.114,
 * Then, like a rocket set aflight, / She sprang, and streaked it for the light!
 * 1) Covered or filled (with something flying).
 * 2) Fleeing.
 * 3) * 1915, Marvin M. Taylor, “The Roll of the War Drums” in Donald Tulloch (ed.), Songs and Poems of the Great World War, Worcester, MA: Davis Press, p.17,
 * Like shepherdless sheep from wolves aflight
 * 1)  Showing distress, anxiety or other strong emotion.
 * 2) * 1547, uncredited translator, A Simple, and Religious Consultation by, London: John Day, “Of the crosse, and aflictions,”
 * when the crosse, and afliction cometh vpon them, their mynde is aflight, it considereth not that the thynges, whiche it suffereth, be the scourges of Goddes wrath,
 * 1) * 1817, anonymous (attributed to James Athearn Jones), Hardenbrass and Haverill, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Volume2, Chapter1, p.7,
 * “ I dare not leave her without locking the door; for the poor thing is quite aflight, and talks about nothing but guns and swords, and bloody knives, and rapes, and other weapons.”
 * Like shepherdless sheep from wolves aflight
 * 1)  Showing distress, anxiety or other strong emotion.
 * 2) * 1547, uncredited translator, A Simple, and Religious Consultation by, London: John Day, “Of the crosse, and aflictions,”
 * when the crosse, and afliction cometh vpon them, their mynde is aflight, it considereth not that the thynges, whiche it suffereth, be the scourges of Goddes wrath,
 * 1) * 1817, anonymous (attributed to James Athearn Jones), Hardenbrass and Haverill, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Volume2, Chapter1, p.7,
 * “ I dare not leave her without locking the door; for the poor thing is quite aflight, and talks about nothing but guns and swords, and bloody knives, and rapes, and other weapons.”
 * 1) * 1817, anonymous (attributed to James Athearn Jones), Hardenbrass and Haverill, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Volume2, Chapter1, p.7,
 * “ I dare not leave her without locking the door; for the poor thing is quite aflight, and talks about nothing but guns and swords, and bloody knives, and rapes, and other weapons.”