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Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. Drayton.

Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.

Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.

bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing.

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

One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships. Totten.

A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.

Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly. Wingless bird (Zoöl.), the apteryx.

A little wing; a very small wing.

Power or skill in flying. [R.] Duke of Argyll.

Having wings; rapid. With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind. Addison.

To nod; to sleep; to nap. [Obs.] "Although I wake or wink." Chaucer.

One who winks. Pope.

In a winking manner; with the eye almost closed. Peacham.

Any periwinkle. Holland.

A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

The redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.

One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.

Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, a winning address. "Each mild and winning note." Keble.