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To waste away; to pine; to languish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Gower.

Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle. Shak.

To twine, twist, or wreathe together or round. [Written also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

To wind about; to encircle. In the circle of his arms Enwound us both. Tennyson.

A wink; a token. Shak.

An eyelash. [A child's word.]

The lapwing.

That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious. Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight. -- Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a fou…

In a flowing manner.

Flowing tendency or quality; fluency. [R.] W. Nichols.

Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.

See Advancing-edge, above.

See Advancing-surface, above.

To dwindle away; to disappear. [Obs.] Rom of R.

With foreknowledge. He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. Jer. Taylor.

Having large and strong or complete wings. Shak.

In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion.

One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

Having a "goosewing."