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abagun
abased
abdomen
abducent
abduction
absconding
absorbent
absorption
abundance
abundant
accent
accommodation
accretion
accretive
accruing
aceste
ache
acquisitively
active
address
admitting
adnascent
adnate
adolescence
adolescent
adoration
advocate
afar
afflation
affluence
affluent
afflux
affluxion
after
after-hours
against
agallochum
agaric
aggeneration
agriculture
aguapecaca
aicurus
aile
aisle
alated
albatros
albicore
albugo
alder
alien
alienation
aliferous
aliform
aligerous
aliped
alkali
all-conscious
all-knowing
allegory
allerion
alliteration
allowance
alluring
alpine
alternate
alternateness
alternating
alternation
amadavad
amadogade
amentaceous
amiable
anaca
anacathartic
anaclastic
anamorphosis
anatreptic
angel-fish
angel-winged
angry
anhima
animalization
animosity
aninga
annotta
antigugler
apagogical
aphis
apis
apostasy
appellative
approach
approaching
appropinquation
approximation
aptera
apteral
aquatinta
arable
arboreous
arcubalist
arefaction
argonauta
argumentation
argumentative
arm
arrosion
as
aspection
asphaltum
assigning
attaching
attain
attainable
attendant
attenuated
attracting
attraction
attractive
attractively
attrahent
aura
aurelia
average
avosetta
away
awl
ax
bac
back
balk
balking
ballistics
balmy
balsam
bamboo
banoy
barbadoes-cherry
barbel
basting
bat
battalia
battering-ram
battle
bead-tree
beam
bean
bear
beat
beck
bedaggle
bedash
bedraggle
bedraggling
beetle
before
befriending
belch
belling
bellowing
bellows
bespeaking
bestowing
beveling
bias-drawing
bibliomancy
billowing
binate
bind
binding
binocular
bipennate
bipennatifid
bird
blaast
black-bird
blain
blatant
blazon
blazoning
bleak
bleeding
bloom
blooming
blore
blossoming
blow
blower
blowing
blown
boat
boatswain
bockeret
bodement
boding
bodkin
body
bold
bombardment
bonito
bookbinding
bopeep
bore
borrow
borrowing
bottomry
bounteous
bounteousness
bountiful
bounty
bow
brail
brake
bramblebush
branch-leaf
brazil-wood
brew
brew-house
brewed
brewery
brewing
bridling
bristle
broad-ax
broad-cast
brood
brooded
brook
bud
bug
bulbous
bulrush
bunch
bunchiness
bunchy
burbast
burning
burrowing
bushel
bust
bustard
but
butter-burr
butterfly
butterwort
button-wood
by
caduceus
calambac
calomel
calumniate
calumniator
calumny
campestrian
camphor
canary-bird
canceration
candent
candicant
canescent
cannon
cannonade
canting
capellet
caper
capitate
carcass
care
carline-thistle
carob
cart-jade
cascade
cassowary
cast
casting
cat-tail
cataclysm
catapelt
catapult
catch-word
catling
cauline
causey
cavazion
celandine
celtis
cency
center
chaff
chain
chalk
chance-medley
channel
chanticleer
charter
cheiropter
chelidon
cherub
chew
chewing
chinch
chisel
choose
chrysalis
ciceronian
cinnamon
circle
circumfluence
circumfluent
circumfluous
circumscribing
clap
clarifying
clasp
claudent
clavated
clawing
clean
cleromancy
clever
climax
clip
close
clout
club-shaped
cluster
clustering
clustery
coach-horse
coalescence
coalescing
cobalt
cock
cock-crowing
cockroach
cocoa
coffee
cognitive
cognoscence
cognoscitive
coleopteral
collarage
collation
collecting
colliquation
comb
combustibility
combustion
coming
communicating
composite
comprehension
concealment
concession
conclusive
concourse
concrement
concrescence
concretion
condemning
condor
conduit
conferring
confessing
conflation
confluence
confluent
conflux
confuting
conger
conjecture
connascence
connate
connoisseur
connusant
conscious
consectary
consecution
consecutive
consenescence
consenescency
consequent
consequential
consequentness
considering
constricting
constriction
constringing
construction
contempt
contractile
contracting
contraction
conusant
convalescence
convalescency
converse
conveyancing
convince
copaiba
copal
coralline
corcelet
cork
cormorant
corn
cornage
cornclad
cornet
cornfield
cornflower
corridor
costal
cotton
cotton-plant
cotton-shrub
couching
counterdrawing
countermarch
course
coursing
cover
covert
cradle
crane
crank
crawl
crayon
crayon-painting
creeper
crescent
crescive
crest
cringe
cringing
crop
cropping
cross-tining
crossing
crowing
crown-wheel
crumpling
cryophorus
cuff
cunning
cup
cupping
cupping-glass
curlew
currency
current
cursive
custard-apple
cut
cuth
cutting
cynanche
dactylist
daggers-drawing
daggling
dangle
darning
darting
dash
dawning
deducing
defeating
defluous
deflux
defluxion
degeneracy
degeneration
deglutition
delineating
delirium
deluge
deluging
demersed
demolishing
demolition
demonstrate
demonstrative
denominator
depict
deposition
derivation
deriving
design
designation
designing
despumation
detaching
deterioration
dewing
dialing
diduction
diffluence
diffluency
diffluent
diffused
diffusion
diffusive
dig
dike
dilatory
dipping
dipter
diptera
dipteral
directive
disallowing
disarraying
disavowing
disburdening
discarding
discerning
discharge
discharging
disclaimation
disclaiming
disclusion
disemboweling
disheveled
dismounting
disorganizing
disowning
display
disposal
disposing
dissolution
distillation
distinguishing
distracting
distraction
distribution
divellent
diversion
docking
dog-cabbage
dogdraw
dogtooth
dogwood-tree
domestication
donation
dotation
double-faced
double-headed
downy
drabble
drabbling
draft
draft-horse
draft-ox
drafting
drag
dragging
draggle
draggling
dragon
dragon-fly
drain
drainage
drained
draining
draught
draught-hooks
draught-horse
draughtsman
draw
drawing
drawing-master
drawing-room
dray-horse
drill-plow
drilling
drinking
drivel
drone-fly
drowning
duck-meat
ducking
ducks-meat
ductileness
ductility
due
dwarf
eadish
eagle
eagle-winged
earing
earwig
easy
eat
eating
ebb
ebbing
ebony-tree
educing
eduction
effluence
efflux
effluxion
effusion
ejaculation
ejaculatory
elbow
elicitation
eliciting
eliminating
elimination
elixation
elucidation
emanant
emanating
emanation
ember-goose
emerods
emission
emu
enate
enclitic
enclitically
encomiastical
endeictic
engine
engorgement
engorging
enravishing
ensuing
entering
enwallowed
epenetic
epiphysy
epispastic
erelong
estranging
etesian
evacuating
evacuation
evaporation
eversion
exaction
exantlation
excandescence
excrescence
excrescent
excretion
excretory
exemplification
exemplifier
exercent
exhaling
exhaust
exhausted
exhausting
exhaustion
exhibiting
exhibition
exhibitory
expectorating
exploring
expressing
expressive
exsufflation
extenuation
extracting
extraction
extrafoliaceous
extraversion
extrusion
exuberancy
exundation
fact
fair
falcon
fallow
fallowing
fallowist
fame-giving
familiar
fan
fancifulness
fanning
fascicled
fate
fattening
faucet
fellifluous
fenny
fervent
fervidly
fervidness
festering
fetching
fether
fethered
fetlock
field
fieldfare
fieldmouse
fig-tree
figure
filling
fineddrawing
fire-engine
firefly
fireplug
fish
fistula
flag
flagging
flagrant
flap
flapping
flaunt
flaxdresser
flaxen
fledge
flicker
flickering
flight
flinching
flinging
flirting
flit
flittermouse
flixweed
float
floating
flock
flood
flooding
flop
flourish
flow
flowing
flowingly
flowingness
flown
fluency
fluent
flugelman
fluidity
flume
flush
flushed
flushing
flute
flutter
fluttering
fluvial
flux
fluxation
fluxed
fluxion
fluxive
fluxure
fly
flyer
flying
fodient
foil
folk
follow
following
fool
footplow
for
foreboding
forerunner
foreshorten
foreshortening
fowl
freshes
freshet
full-winged
fungous
funnel
fur
furrowweed
fusil
fusion
fustic
gallery
gallinaceous
garden-stuff
gare
gastroraphy
gather
gathering
gavilan
generous
genethliac
get
gift
gifting
give
giving
glass
glass-gazing
gleed
glitter
glow
glowing
glowingly
glowworm
golden
goldfinch
good
goosewing
gorgeous
gorging
grace
grains
grant
granting
graze
grazed
grazer
grazing
green
grieving
griffon
grin
grinding
grinning
grow
growing
grub
guesser
guilt
guilty
gulch
gurgling
gushing
gymnastic
hackle
hair
half-faced
hallowing
hamper
hang
hanging
harpy
harrowing
harvest-fly
hatch
hatcheling
hauling
haw
hawk
heart-sorrowing
heave
heaving
heel
helioscope
heliotrope
hemiptera
hemipteral
hemorrhoids
herbescent
hew
hiatus
hiding
high-flaming
hippogriff
history
hobit
hold
hollowing
hopper
horn
hover
hovering
how
howitzer
huddling
humming-bird
hurl
hurling
huso
hydragogue
hymenoptera
hymenopteral
hyperbole
hypermeter
iambus
ibis
icarian
ichor
ignifluous
ignorance
illuminator
imagination
imbowing
imbrue
imitating
imitation
imp
imparting
impennous
improbable
improvable
improvement
improving
incalescency
incalescent
incandescence
incandescent
incapacitate
incarcerate
incident
inclination
inconsequent
inconsequential
incrassating
increase
increasing
increment
increscent
incurvation
indefatigable
indicant
indicating
indicative
indicatory
induction
inductive
induration
industrious
influence
influent
influx
ingestion
ingulfing
ingurgitation
inhaler
inhaling
injecting
injection
insectivorous
insemination
insinuating
insinuation
inspecting
inspection
inspiration
instead
insufflation
intelligent
interchangeable
interfluous
interjecting
interjection
interluency
intermeation
interval
intrafoliaceous
intransitively
introduce
inundant
inundate
inundating
inundation
inviting
ipecacuanha
irroration
issue
issuing
itself
jaculation
jaculatory
japanning
jerk
jettison
jetty
jubilee
just
justification
kite
know
knowing
knowingly
knowledge
lading
ladle
lady-fly
lance
landflood
lap
lapidescent
lapse
lapsing
lapwing
larve
laterifolious
lattermath
lava
lavish
lawn
lay
lead
leading
leather-winged
leaving
left
leg
lepidoptera
let
lether-winged
lever
levity
liar
light
limbat
limning
lingering
liquid
literal
lithophagous
living
logwood
lolling
long
loose
loosely
lose
lot
love
low
lowing
lumping
lunged
luxuriation
mahogany
malapert
malt
manation
manchineel
mandible
mandrake
manducating
manducation
mane
mangonel
manifesting
manifesto
manna
mantle
manurable
mark
martial
mash
masticate
masticating
mastication
masticatory
math
matins
mature
mealy
mellifluous
melt
menstruant
mercy-seat
metal
metallurgy
metamorphose
metamorphosis
mettle
mid
mildewing
miller
mine
minor
molt
monsoon
mood
moose
mortar
motion
mountain
mourning
movement
mow
mucus
mugient
multiplying
mumbling
munificence
munificent
muscle
mustaches
mutuation
nail
narrowing
narrowings
nasicornous
neck
needle
negatively
neuropter
neuroptera
never
newing
nice
nigrescent
nine-pins
noise
none
nor
not
numerous
nutmeg
oar
obduction
observant
observation
oculate
of
ogling
olibanum
ominous
omnisciency
omniscient
omniscious
on
one
oozing
opposite
orchard
orthography
ortolan
oscillate
oscillation
oscillatory
osmund
osselet
ostensive
ostrich
out
outlawing
outwing
overflow
overflowing
overflowingly
overshadowing
overturning
overwing
owe
owing
owning
palm
palmetto
pantograph
papaw
papilionaceous
paragoge
parasite
parasitical
parlor
parsley
patch
pattern
pearl
pedestrious
peduncular
pedunculate
peel
pelt
pen
pencil
penciling
pendulous
penguin
pennated
penned
pentagraph
people
peremptory
perflation
perlustration
permission
permissive
perspective
petiolary
petioled
pewet
pharisean
phenicopter
physiognomicical
physiognomy
picture
pillowing
pinchers
pine
pinion
pinioned
pinionist
pissabed
pistillaceous
pitchfork
pitching
pitman
plaise
plan
play
plow
plowboy
plowing
plumous
point
pointing
poise
pome
portending
portension
portentous
portioning
portray
portraying
postpone
pour
power
precipitant
precipitate
precipitating
precipitation
predial
prefigurative
prefiguring
premonstration
presaging
prescient
prescious
presignification
prickle
privy
procure
professing
profiling
profluent
prognostic
prognosticating
prognostication
projecting
projection
prolifical
promise
properly
property
prospective
prostrating
prostration
prosyllogism
protracting
protraction
protractive
provided
prune
ptarmigan
puff
puffing
pull
pulling
pump
purl
pursuance
pursue
pursuing
pursuit
q
quachilto
quaffing
quarter
quatern
quilt
quotient
racemous
racking
raffling
rail
rameous
rampant
rankness
rashness
raspberry
rat
reabsorption
read
readvertency
rear-mouse
reasonable
rebellowing
reboation
rebutter
receding
receive
receiver
receptacular
recess
recession
reconciling
reconnoitering
recrudescent
redrafting
redwing
reflecting
reflection
reflective
refloat
reflowing
refluctuation
refluency
refluent
reflux
refutation
regard
regatta
regeneration
regeneratory
regurgitating
regurgitation
rejecting
rejection
rejuvenescence
remasticate
remasticating
renew
renewal
renovating
renovation
rentering
repentant
representation
representing
reprinting
reprobation
resorbent
restagnate
restoring
resurveying
retire
retirement
retiring
retorting
retracting
retraction
retractive
retraxit
retreat
reversal
review
revisal
revising
revision
reviving
revoke
revulsion
revulsive
rhinoceros
ride
rigorous
rock
rokambole
rolling-press
room
roost
rorifluent
rose
rose-wood
rosemary
rot
rotatory
roughings
rounding
roundridge
row
row-lock
row-port
rowen
rower
rowing
rubescent
ruminant
ruminating
rumination
running
rustle
sabbatical
saccade
sagacious
sail
salt
salutation
salute
saw
scapular
scarabee
scatter
scession
sciolous
scirocco
scolopendra
score
scored
scotale
scout
scrabble
scramble
scrape
sculking
sculpture
sea-breeze
sea-devil
sea-faring
sea-grass
sea-navelwort
sea-weed
sea-wormwood
seamstress
seamy
seceding
second
sedge
seed-time
seedy
seeing
self-knowing
semination
senescence
sequacious
sequacity
sequence
sequent
sevennight
shadowing
shardborn
sharded
shave
she
shears
sheath
sheath-winged
shedding
sheet
shell
shelter
shewing
short
short-sightedness
short-winged
shovel
shoveling
shrinking
shrug
shrugging
shuffling
silvery
siphon
sitfast
sketching
skillful
slab
slash
sling
slinging
sloe-worm
slow
slow-worm
smoke
smooth
snakeroot
snakewood
soar
soaring
soft
sorrow
sorrowing
sortilege
sounding
sowing
spacious
sparhawk
sparrow-hawk
spawling
spear
speculate
speculatory
spine
spinning
spirit
spoil
spot
spouting
spread
spred
spunge
spy-glass
squibbing
stagnant
stagnation
staminiferous
stanch
stanched
stancher
stanching
stand
standard
standing
station
stationary
stealing
steerage
stewing
stipulaceous
stipular
stitch
stitching
stonecutting
stoop
stow
stowage
stowing
strain
strappado
strapping
straw
streak
stream
streamer
streaming
streamy
stretch
stretching
strewing
stricture
string
strokesman
studding-sail
style
suasory
subduction
subject
submarine
submerging
submersed
subnascent
subsecutive
subsequence
subsequent
substraction
subtracting
subverting
succeeding
succession
successive
successively
suck
sucker
sucking
suction
suffer
suffering
sufflation
sugar-mite
suggest
suit
sullen
sum
supercrescence
supercrescent
superexcrescence
superfetation
superfluous
superplant
supineness
supra-axillary
sure
surveying
suture
swage
swallowing
swamp
swash
swath
sway
sweating
sweep
sweep-net
swelling
swift
swilling
swimming
swine-pipe
swineherd
swing
swing-wheel
swinge
swinge-buckler
swinger
swinging
swingingly
swingle
swingled
swingling-tow
swoop
swung
syllable
sympathize
syncopate
sythe
tabling
tackling
tactics
tailings
talent
tallowing
tap
tautology
teach
team
tear
telescope
tempestuous
tend
tending
term
terminal
tern
tertials
than
that
themselves
thermoscope
thick
thine
thirdings
thole
thrifty
thrive
thriving
throw
thry-fallow
tide-gate
tillage
time
tirwit
to
tobacco
tolerating
tooth
topaz
topman
tore
torricellian
toss
tossing
totter
tow
tow-rope
towage
towing
towing-path
tracing
tracking
traction
tractor
tragacanth
trailing
training
trammel
transform
transforming
traverse
traverse-board
tree
trench
trick
trickling
trifallow
tromp
trumpeting
tuck
tufted
tufty
tung
tunnel-pit
turn
turpentine
twifallowing
twine
twinge
twinging
twofold
u
umbellated
umbra
unconscious
uncorking
undawning
underbrush
undergrowth
undermine
understanding
undispensing
unhorsed
unhorsing
unicorn
unintelligent
uniting
unknowing
unknowingly
unpitying
unscrewing
unsheathing
unshrinking
unsinewing
unwasting
unweeting
unwithdrawing
upturn
utter
vacuum
vaginopennous
van
vane
veer
vegetating
vegetation
vegetative
ventilation
verdant
vibrate
viewing
vigil
virtue
visiting
vividly
volant
volatile
voluble
volutation
vomiting
vortex
vowing
wager
wall-moss
wallow
wallowing
warp
warping
washing
wasp
wasp-fly
water-bellows
water-borne
water-cress
water-tath
watering
waxing
weetless
weltering
wen
whirled
whirring
whisker
white-campion
white-darnel
white-film
whitewood
widowing
wild
willing
wind
wing
wing-footed
wing-shell
winged
wingless
wingy
winnow
winnowing
wiredraw
wiredrawing
wise
wise-hearted
wishful
withdrawing
withdrawing-room
withdrawment
without
wittingly
wood
worm
worming
wrench
wrinkle
yam
yapon
yclad
yielding
yoke
yon
yonder
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WING, n.

1. The limb of a fowl by which it flies. In a few species of fowls, the wings do not enable them to fly; as is the case with the dodo, ostrich, great auk, and penguin; but in the two former, the wings assist the fowls in running.

2. The limb of an insect by which it flies.

3. In botany, the side petal of a papilionaceous corol; also, an appendage of seeds, by means of which they are wafted in the air and scattered; also, any membranous or leafy dilatation of a footstalk, or of the angles of a stem, branch or flower stalk, or of a calyx.

4. Flight; passage by the wind; as, to be on the wind; to take wing.

5. Means of flying; acceleration. Fear adds wings to flight.

6. Motive or incitement of flight.

Then fiery expedition be my wing.

7. The flank or extreme body or part of an army.

8. Any side-piece.

9. In gardening, a side-shoot.

10. In architecture, a side-building, less than the main edifice.

11. In fortification, the longer sides of hornworks, crown-works, &c.

12. In a fleet, the ships on the extremities, when ranged in a line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

13. In a ship, the wings are those parts of the hold and orlop deck, which are nearest the sides.

14. In Scripture, protection; generally in the plural. Psalm 63. Exodus 19.

On the wings of the wind, with the utmost velocity. Psalm 18.

WING, v.t.

1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly or to move with celerity.

Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms.

2. To supply with side bodies; as on either side well winged.

3. To transport by flight.

I, an old turtle, will wing me to some witherd bough.

Edge the keen sword, and wing th unerring ball.

To wing a flight, to exert the power of flying.
1913 Definition
Wing (wing)
n.(?)
Wing
[OE. winge, wenge; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. *** Sw. vinge, Icel. væ]ngr.]

  1. One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.

    As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings. Deut. xxxii. 11.

    * In the wing of a bird the long quill feathers are in series. The primaries are those attached to the ulnar side of the hand; the secondaries, or wing coverts, those of the forearm: the scapulars, those that lie over the humerus; and the bastard feathers, those of the short outer digit. See Illust. of Bird, and Plumage.

  2. Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
    Specifically: (Zoöl.) (a)
  3. Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.

    Light thickens; and the crow
    Makes wing to the rooky wood.     Shak.

  4. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

    Fiery expedition be my wing. Shak.

  5. Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
  6. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
  7. Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
    Specifically: (a) (Zoöl.)
  8. One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
    Hence: (a) (Arch.)
  9. 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.

  10. To supply with wings or sidepieces.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    To wing a flight, to exert the power of flying; to fly.

  14. Any surface used primarily for supporting a flying machine in flight, whether by edge-on motion, or flapping, or rotation; specif., either of a pair of supporting planes of a flying machine.
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