Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Winging"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wing \Wing\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Winged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Winging}.]
1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with
celerity.

Who heaves old ocean, and whowings the storms.
--Pope.

Living, to wing with mirth the weary hours.
--Longfellow.

2. To supply with wings or sidepieces.

The main battle, whose puissance on either side
Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
--Shak.

3. To transport by flight; to cause to fly.

I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some withered
bough. --Shak.

4. To move through in flight; to fly through.

There's not an arrow wings the sky But fancy turns
its point to him. --Moore.

5. To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable
a wing of; as, to wing a bird.


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