n.
1. an instance of traveling by air
2. capable of or engaged in flight
3. moving swiftly
4. streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air
5. designed for swift movement or action
6. of or relating to passage through the air (especially aviation)
7. hurried and brief
8. done swiftly in or as if in the air; used e.g. of a racing start in which runners are already in mot
