2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated;
lofty; sublime. [R.]
How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be
followed for its own sake. --J. S.
Harford.
3. Swift; rapid. ``Bear this sealed brief with winged haste
to the lord marshal.'' --Shak.
4. Wounded or hurt in the wing.
5. (Bot.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit
of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants;
alate.
6. (Her.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a
different tincture from the body.
7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. ``The winged air
darked with plumes.'' --Milton.
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.