As a type of what is fleeting or ephemeral.

figurative (literary or poetic). Something insubstantial or impermanent; a fleeting or transient moment. Also: a very small margin, a very short…

As a type of the fleeting or unsubstantial.

A fair held in cherry-orchards for the sale of the fruit, ‘still kept up in Worcestershire’ (Halliwell); often the scene of boisterous gaiety and…

Chiefly in plural. A transitory, fleeting, or impermanent thing. Now rare.

Something comparable to smoke or vapour as being unsubstantial, transient, imaginary, etc.

Something that lasts only ‘for a while’.

One who or that which flits. A fleeting thing.

= ephemeral, n.

A man who lives for a day; (in quot.) a man considered as mortal and transient. Obsolete. rare.

A thing or being that is transient in time; something passing, transitory, or impermanent. Obsolete.

Something fugitive; something fleeting, or that eludes the grasp. Obsolete except with personification.

A transient thing or being; something passing, transitory, or impermanent.

transferred and figurative. One who or something which has a transitory existence.

figurative. A short-lived person, institution, or production.

A mortal, a human being. Obsolete. rare.

figurative (in reference to its rapid growth and short duration: cf mushroom).

concrete. An evanescent thing. rare.

Passing into adjective. Frequently in a sometime thing: something which is occasional or transient.