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To prune again or anew. Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew. Young.

A wing; a van. [Poetic] Like an eagle soaring To weather his broad sails. Spenser .

rmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. Keble.

Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope.

To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup. [Obs.] With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty, To the last praises of this Faery Queene. Spenser.

To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air." Milton.

To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar. On the other side an high rock towered still. Spenser. My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. Shak.

The act of a hawk, or other bird of prey, in seizing its quarry, and soaring with it into air. [Obs.]

To expose to the air; to air; to season by exposure to air. [An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air To weather his broad sails. Spenser. This gear lacks weathering. Latimer.

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.

Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; volatile airy. [Obs. or R.] Those wingy mysteries in divinity. Sir T. Browne.

Yonder. [Obs. or Poetic] But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing. Milton.