Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Fly describes moving through the air, like birds that fly in the sky, or getting something accepted, like your silly excuse that's not going to fly with your history teacher. "I'll Fly Away", is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary The prisoners tried to escape from jail. strip that hides the opening of trousers/pants or underpantsDevils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. This is the British English definition of fly.View American English definition of fly. This summer just flew by! “Fly-tipping” is illegal dumping of rubbish or bulky items. All rights reserved.to be carried through the air by the wind or any other force or agency: to change rapidly and unexpectedly from one state or position to another: A mother fox will fly at anyone approaching her kits.It seemed like a good idea, but it just wouldn't fly.to make (something) float or move through the air: to hang (scenery) above a stage by means of rigging supported by the gridiron.to raise (scenery) from the stage or acting area into the flies.a strip of material sewn along one edge of a garment opening for concealing buttons, zippers, or other fasteners.a piece of canvas extending over the ridgepole of a tent and forming an outer roof.a light, covered, public carriage drawn by one horse; hansom; hackney coach.a horizontal arm, weighted at each end, that pivots about the screw of a press so that when the screw is lowered the momentum of the fly will increase the force of the press.a regulating device for chime and striking mechanisms, consisting of an arrangement of vanes on a revolving axis.
On the fly definition, to move through the air using wings. If you say that time is flying by, it means that it feels like the time is passing very quickly. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is "Starring the light-skinned Ron O'Neal with his shoulder-length perm and