Winged
[wɪŋd]
Definition
(adj.) very fast; as if with wings; 'on winged feet' .
(adj.) having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind; 'the winged feet of Mercury'; .
Checker: Maisie--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Wing
(a.) Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.
(a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime.
(a.) Swift; rapid.
(a.) Wounded or hurt in the wing.
(a.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.
(a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.
(a.) Fanned with wings; swarming with birds.
Typist: Penelope
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. With wings.[2]. Swift, rapid, fleet, fast, speedy, nimble, agile, flying.
Typist: Tabitha
Examples
- A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Wrights adopted this type, believing that it was the strongest form, and could be made more compact and be more easily managed than the single plane, or the many-winged type. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The winged furies were now prowling gossips who dropped in on each other for tea. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In her death she winged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelled all the rest. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Even in the shallow Marshalsea, the ever young Archer shot off a few featherless arrows now and then from a mouldy bow, and winged a Collegian or two. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The winged lion is found every where--and doubtless here, where the winged lion is, no harm can come. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Ursula went straight to the station, hastening heedlessly on winged feet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And so the Winged Lion of St. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite emblem in the grand old city. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When I bend the knee to other than God, it shall be at thy white and winged feet, beautiful on mountain or on plain. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This cow, worth twenty oxen, is decreed, For him who farthest sends the winged reed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They were rigid-winged, four-winged creatures, often very big, some of them having wings measuring a foot in length. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nature there is totally confounded, and nothing mentioned but winged horses, fiery dragons, and monstrous giants. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A white-winged gull flew by, with the flash of sunshine on its silvery breast. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- How good of him--nay, it would be almost as if a winged messenger had suddenly stood beside her path and held out his hand towards her! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- From world to world His couriers fly, Thought-winged and shod with fire; The angel of His stormy sky Rides down the sunken wire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near,' I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I call them birds since they were winged, but mortal eye ne'er rested on such odd, unearthly shapes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Here aloft, the companions of the swift-winged birds, we skim through the unresisting element, fleetly and fearlessly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His familiars were creeping and winged things, and they seemed to enroll him in their band. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typist: Tabitha