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- English Word Wing Definition Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- English Word Wing Definition Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- English Word Wing Definition One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
- English Word Wing Definition A side building, less than the main edifice; as, one of the wings of a palace.
- English Word Wing Definition The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work.
- English Word Wing Definition A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- English Word Wing Definition The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.
- English Word Wing Definition That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- English Word Wing Definition One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
- English Word Wing Definition To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.
- English Word Wing Definition To supply with wings or sidepieces.
- English Word Wing Definition To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
- English Word Wing Definition To move through in flight; to fly through.
- English Word Wing Definition To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.
- English Word Wing-footed Definition Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.
- English Word Wing-footed Definition Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.
- English Word Wing-footed Definition Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod mollusks.
- English Word Wing-handed Definition Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
- English Word Wing-leaved Definition Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.
- English Word Wing-shell Definition Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing.
- English Word Wing-shell Definition Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus.
- English Word Wing-shell Definition Any pteropod shell.
- English Word Winged Definition of Wing
- English Word Winged Definition Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.
- English Word Winged Definition Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime.
- English Word Winged Definition Swift; rapid.
- English Word Winged Definition Wounded or hurt in the wing.
- English Word Winged Definition Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.
- English Word Winged Definition Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.
- English Word Winged Definition Fanned with wings; swarming with birds.