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Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting. Shak.

Long-breathed; hence, tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; as, a long-winded talker. -- Long"-wind"ed*ness, n. A tedious, long-winded harangue. South.

The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

The middle of winter. Dryden.

Land from which grass is cut; meadow land. Mowing machine, an agricultural machine armed with knives or blades for cutting standing grass, etc. It is drawn by a horse or horses, or propelled by steam.

The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent.

The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example of extreme Neo- Darwinism. -- Ne`o-Dar*win"i*an, a. & n.

Yeast; barm. [prov. Eng.]

To disentangle. [Obs.]

To win a way out of. [Obs.]

To extricate by winding; to unloose. [R.] Spenser. Dr. H. More.

To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying. Garth.

verflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.

In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.

Too knowing or too cunning.

To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.

To outflank. [Obs.] Milton.

Had or held under obligation of paying; due. There is more owing her than is paid. Shak.

Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.

A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.