Wednesday Shout Out : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007 She dreams she leans over the brown dust and lifts a brown leaf that is a moth, holds it inside her mouth to revive the flutter from a frost now covering the still-live glass, the fallen pears half eaten by deer, and her shoulders exposed from the comforter her lover always drags to his side of the mattress. SMIT’s GROW: Solar and Wind Photovoltaic ‘Leaves’ | Inhabitat 2008 Using a series of flexible solar cells as leaves, GROW takes the shape of ivy growing on a building - the leaves are solar cells while the wind that causes them to flutter is harvested as viable energy using a series of piezoelectric generators on the underside of each leaf. State Capitol police today reversed an earlier decision to allow the bright yellow 'Don't Tread On Me' banner to flutter from the highly visible flagpole after learning that activists had planned a political rally following the flag-raising ceremony. Therein flutter the souls of the dead for the dead be many and the living few.

In these two wind-conscious memoirs, the word flutter appears often and imaginatively. noun abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm) can result in heart block.verb flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements.noun the motion made by flapping up and down.verb move along rapidly and lightly skim or dart.noun UK A small bet or risky investment.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.verb transitive To cause something to flap.verb intransitive Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying to fly with a light flapping of the wings.verb intransitive To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.noun a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats - so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun Hurry tumult agitation of the mind confusion disorder.noun The act of fluttering quick and irregular motion vibration.transitive verb To drive in disorder to throw into confusion.transitive verb To vibrate or move quickly.To cause to flutter disorder throw into confusion.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.To move in quick irregular motions agitate vibrate: as, a bird fluttering its wings.To be frivolous or foppish play the part of a beau of the period fly from one thing to another.To be in agitation fluctuate in feeling be in uncertainty hang on the balance.

To move up and down or to and fro in quick irregular motions vibrate, throb, or move about rapidly or variably hover or waver in quick motion.This occurs in locomotives when the boiler primes, or works water into the cylinders. noun A flow of mingled water and steam from the gage-cocks of a steam-boiler.noun Agitation confusion confused or excited feeling or action.noun Quick and irregular motion, as of wings rapid vibration, undulation, or pulsation: as, the flutter of a fan or of the heart.noun Chiefly British A small bet a gamble.noun Rapid fluctuation in the pitch of a sound reproduction resulting from variations in the speed of the recording or reproducing equipment.noun Medicine Abnormally rapid pulsation, especially of the atria or ventricles of the heart.noun A condition of nervous excitement or agitation.intransitive verb To move quickly in a nervous, restless, or excited fashion flit.intransitive verb To vibrate or beat rapidly or erratically.intransitive verb To move or fall in a manner suggestive of tremulous flight.intransitive verb To flap the wings without flying.

intransitive verb To fly by a quick light flapping of the wings.intransitive verb To wave or flap rapidly in an irregular manner.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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