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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FLITE

Flite, v. i. Etym: [AS. flitan to strive, contend, quarrel; akin to G. fleiss industry. ]

 

Defn: To scold; to quarrel. [Prov. Eng. ] Grose.

 

FLITE; FLYTE

Flite, Flyte, n. [AS. flit. See Flite. ]

 

Defn: Strife; dispute; abusive or upbraiding talk, as in fliting; wrangling. [Obs. or Scot. & Prov. Eng. ]

 

The bird of Pallas has also a good "flyte " on the moral side. .. in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands. Saintsbury.