a number of birds or objects flying through the air together; anything resembling a flight of stairs; a flock flying in company. See also bevy, covey, skein.
Examples: flight of academicians; of aeroplanes; of airmen; of angels; of arrows; of bees; of birds [young birds taking first flight together]; of butterflies; of clouds; of cormorants; of doves; of dunbirds; of eloquence; of fish-hooks [used in spinning trace]; of flies; of fowls; of goshawks; of hurdles; of larks; of locks [canals]. 1861; of mallard; of pigeons; of plover; of rails; of stairs; of steps; of storks; of swallows; of terraces; of widgeon; of woodcock.