WINGED

a.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.

2.
a.

Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. [R.] How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake. J. S. Harford.

3.
a.

Swift; rapid. "Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal." Shak.

4.
a.

Wounded or hurt in the wing.

5.
a.

Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.

6.
a.

Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.

7.
a.

Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. "The winged air darked with plumes." Milton.


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