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Too knowing or too cunning.

To outflank. [Obs.] Milton.

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

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

The golden-eye.

A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius phoeniceus) of the family Icteridæ. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-…

Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx.

Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the lepidoptera; scaly-winged.

Scale-winged.

a. & n. from Screw, v. t. Screwing machine. See Screw machine, under Screw.

A wing shell (Avicula).

Knowing one's self, or one's own character, powers, and limitations.

That which is sewed with the needle. Sewing horse (Harness making), a clamp, operated by the foot, for holding pieces of leather while being sewed. -- Sewing machine, a machine for sewing or stitching. -- Sewing press, or Sewing table (Bookbinding), a fixture or table having a frame in which are held the cords to whi…

A faint representation; an adumbration. There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. Tylor.

Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.

Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.

Appearance; display; exhibition.

The hedg sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]

Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. Spur-winged goose (Zoöl.), any one of several species of long-legged African geese of the genus Plectropterus and allied genera, having a strong spur on the bend of the wing, as the Gambo goose (P. Gambensis) and the Egyptian, or Nile, goose (Alopochen Ægyptiaca). --…

ise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.