2. Verb. (third-person singular of flicker) ¹
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Definition of Flickers
1. flicker [v] - See also: flicker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flickers
Literary usage of Flickers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"For two weeks or more previous to this, I had frequently started one or other of
the flickers from the nest in passing it on my way to the landing; ..."
2. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... so coolly fresh and shining with dew, and later in the day, by the hue of the
grapevine, the goldfinch on the willow, the flickers flying in flocks, ..."
3. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"It flickers like lightning in my brain. It will not burn steadily. I can't grasp it.
What does this mean?—I am troubled, but can work. ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"What though our sky is shrouded with the midnight robe of shame, And the light
but faintly flickers from our Freedom's altar-flame ; Darkest night precedes ..."
5. Legislation for the Protection of Birds Other Than Game Birds by Theodore Sherman Palmer (1900)
"Of the woodpeckers, the flickers or pigeon woodpeckers (fig. 3), represented in
the East by the yellow-shafted flicker- ..."
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