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white-winged, a.
(ˈhwaɪtwɪŋd, also poet. -ˌwɪŋɪd)
Having white wings: often in specific names of birds which have the wings wholly or partly white; also fig.
1594Selimus K 1, White-wing'd victorie sits on our swordes. 1728Thomson Spring 645 Around the Head Of Traveller, the white-wing'd Plover wheels Her sounding Flight. 1757Dyer Fleece i. 157 White-winged snow, and cloud, and pearly rain. 1821Latham Gen. Hist. Birds I. 8 Vulture..White-winged..; some of the larger wing coverts,..white, with black ends. 1821Campbell Lover to Mistr. 1 If any white-winged power above My joys and griefs survey. 1872Coues Key N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 294 Velvet Scoter. White-winged Surf-duck. |