fluttering

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

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.
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