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A wing, literal or figurative. Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome. Pope.

Having wings or pinions.

Any winged creature.

Want or difference of belief; disbelief. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

Wrong opinion. [Obs.]

than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action. Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persussion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting. Sir M. Hale. I can not pu…

Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.

Opinionated.

Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.

Conceitedly. Feltham.

An opinionist. [Obs.]

Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton.

An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. [Obs.] South.

Opinionated; conceited. His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton.

One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.

Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.

Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.

Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South.

To loose from pinions or manacles; to free from restraint. Goldsmith.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.