Winged

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Winged \Winged\, a.
     1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having
        winglike expansions.
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     2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated;


        lofty; sublime. [R.]
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              How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be
              followed for its own sake.            --J. S.
                                                    Harford.
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     3. Swift; rapid. "Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to
        the lord marshal." --Shak.
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     4. Wounded or hurt in the wing.
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     5. (Bot.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit
        of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants;
        alate.
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     6. (Her.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a
        different tincture from the body.
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     7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. "The winged air
        darked with plumes." --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wing \Wing\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Winged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Winging}.]
     1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with
        celerity.
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              Who heaves old ocean, and whowings the storms.
                                                    --Pope.
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              Living, to wing with mirth the weary hours.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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     2. To supply with wings or sidepieces.
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              The main battle, whose puissance on either side
              Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
                                                    --Shak.
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     3. To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
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              I, an old turtle,
              Will wing me to some withered bough.  --Shak.
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     4. To move through in flight; to fly through.
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              There's not an arrow wings the sky
              But fancy turns its point to him.     --Moore.
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     5. To cut off the wings of or to wound in the wing; to
        disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird; also, [fig.] to
        wound the arm of a person.
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     {To wing a flight}, to exert the power of flying; to fly.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  winged
       adj 1: having or as if having wings; "the winged feet of Mercury";
              [ant: {wingless}]
       2: very fast; as if with wings; "on winged feet"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "winged":
     agile, breakneck, dashing, double-quick, eagle-winged, expeditious,
     express, fast, fleet, flying, galloping, hair-trigger, hasty,
     headlong, hustling, light of heel, light-footed, lively, mercurial,
     nimble, nimble-footed, precipitate, prompt, quick,
     quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, reckless, running,
     snappy, spanking, speedy, swift