Definition of Wing

- Deut. xxxii. 11.
2.(Zool.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
Light thickens; and the crow
Makes wing to the rooky wood.
- Shak.
Fiery expedition be my wing.
- Shak.
7.(Zool.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
8.(Arch.) One of two corresponding appendages attached; a sidepiece.
On the wing
a - Supported by, or flying with, the wings another.
On the wings of the wind
with the utmost velocity.
Under the wing of
under the care or protection of.
Wing and wing
(Naut.) with sails hauled out on either side; - said of a schooner, or her sails, when going before the wind with the foresail on one side and the mainsail on the other; also said of a square-rigged vessel which has her studding sails set. Cf. Goosewinged.
Wing case
(Zool.) one of the anterior wings of beetles, and of some other insects, when thickened and used to protect the hind wings; an elytron; - called also wing cover.
Wing covert
(Zool.) one of the small feathers covering the bases of the wing quills. See Covert, n., 2.
Wing gudgeon
Wing shell
(Zool.) wing case of an insect.
Wing stroke
the stroke or sweep of a wing.
Wing transom
(Naut.) the uppermost transom of the stern; - called also main transom.
- J. Knowles.
v. t.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.
To wing a flight
to exert the power of flying; to fly.

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