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▪ I. winged, a.|ˈwɪŋɪd, wɪŋd| Forms: see wing n.; also 5 venged(e, 6 Sc. vengit. [f. wing n. + -ed2.] 1. a. Having wings, as a bird, bat, insect, supernatural or mythical being, etc.; represented or figured with wings. Her. Having the wings of a specified tincture. Also in numerous parasynthetic compounds, as long-winged, strong-winged, swift-winged, white-winged, etc., q.v. in their alphabetical places.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 527 The wynged god Mercurie. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 22816 Toward the heuene sche took hir fflyght; For..Sche was whynged, ffor to ffle. 1513Douglas æneis i. x. 13 The vengit god of luif. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 111 b, An Harpie, Vert, Wynged de Or. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 235 Loue lookes not with the eyes, but with the minde, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blinde. 1599― Hen. V, ii. Chorus 7 With winged heeles, as English Mercuries. 1667Milton P.L. v. 55 One shap'd and wing'd like one of those from Heav'n By us oft seen. 1708Prior Turtle & Sparrow 172 Our winged Friends thro' all the Grove. 1819Keats Hyperion i. 197 His winged minions in close clusters stood. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 66 This insect becomes winged in the month of August. 1854Tennyson Marr. Geraint 275 Tits, wrens, and all wing'd nothings peck him dead! 1873E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) V, Winged Sea-horses. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xv, The stop which regulated the play of the water was formed into the winged figure of a child moulded in silver. b. poet. Applied to a ship with sails set.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cvii. viii, How many mounting winged tree For traffique leave retiring land. 1614W. Browne Inner Temple Masque i. Syrens' Song 1 Steere hither, steere, your winged pines, All beaten mariners. 1634Rainbow Labour (1635) 34 Why..doe those winged vessels cut the water? 1725Pope Odyss. viii. 550 From the shores the winged navy flies. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xxviii, Sailors..Coop'd in their winged sea-girt citadel. †c. Full of wings; crowded with flying birds. poet. Obs.
1634Milton Comus 730 Th' earth cumber'd, and the wing'd air dark't with plumes. 2. Furnished with or having a wing or wings, i.e. lateral part(s), appendage(s), or projection(s).
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 13/1 Ther forme, which we cal Terrebellum alatum, the winged trepane. 1613T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. iv. ii. 178 Sometimes they would make a winged army, so that the maine body thereof should be in the middle, & on each side a lesser company. 1620–55I. Jones Stone-Heng 76 Dipteros Hypæthros, which is double winged about uncovered. 1780A. Young Tour Irel. II. 198 Mr. Wyse ploughed lightly with a winged plough. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 520 Winged grass-seed harrows. 1859Reeve Brittany 176 A well-to-do peasant father and son with the embroidered gaiter, winged leather boot, many-buttoned waistcoat. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5728, A winged wardrobe, with circular ends. 1881J. Evans Anc. Bronze Implem. 71 The winged celts may be generally described as those in which the flanges are short and have a great amount of lateral extension. 1923J. C. Rogers Engl. Furnit. fig. 33 A fine example of a winged armchair upholstered in damask. 3. In special scientific applications. † a. Bot. = pinnate 1 a. Also winged clefts, the divisions of a pinnatifid leaf (cf. wing-cleft, wing n. 24). Obs. (An inexact rendering of L. pinnatus, in this case intended to mean ‘feathered’ or ‘feather-shaped’.) b. Bot., etc. Having wings, i.e. lateral processes or appendages, as a stem, seed, fruit, shell, etc. c. Bot. in names of plants distinguished by having pinnate leaves (obs.), or winged stems or other parts; winged bean, a tropical legume, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, native to south-eastern Asia and cultivated for its edible leaves, winged pods, and tubers; cf. Goa bean s.v. Goa1; winged elm, a small N. American species of elm (Ulmus alata) with corky winged branches; winged pea, a plant of the S. European genus Tetragonolobus (now included in Lotus), having four-winged pods (see pea1 3); winged thistle N.Z., either of two thistles of the genus Carduus, C. tenuiflorus or C. pycnocephalus, which have winged stems. a.1668Wilkins Real Char. 84 Winged leaves; like those of Tansy. 1721Mortimer Husb. (ed. 5) II. 214 Many winged Leaves like those of the Ash. 1776Withering Brit. Plants Gloss., Winged-Leaves, when an undivided leaf⁓stalk hath many little leaves growing from each side; as in..Ash and Pea. Ibid., Winged-Clefts. 1796Ibid. (ed. 3) III. 772 Leaf triply-winged. b.1776Withering Brit. Plants Gloss., Winged-Leaf⁓stalk: one that is not cylindrical, but flattish, with a thin leafy border at each edge. 1787tr. Linnæus' Fam. Plants I. 383 The seeds pedicel'd pendulous three-side-winged. 1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 203 Trigonal, with angular, winged, membranaceous processes. 1866Treas. Bot. 1135/1 Tetragonolobus, a genus of leguminous plants allied to Lotus, from which they are well distinguished by their quadrangular winged pods. c.1650[W. Howe] Phytol. Brit. 31 Corallina pennata longior. Inter Scopulos. Winged Coralline. 1665Lovell Herball (ed. 2) 470 Winged wind weed. 1739Miller Gard. Dict. II, Ochrus, Winged Pea. 1832Veg. Subst. Food of Man 168 The Winged Yam. 1858A. Gray Man. Bot. U.S. (1860) 396 Ulmus alata..(Winged Elm). 1910H. F. Macmillan Handbk. Trop. Gardening & Planting 189 Psophocarpus tetragonolobus. Winged bean; Goa bean; Manilla bean. 1915N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 21 June 550 Winged thistle [seed]..About the same size as spear⁓thistle seed. 1966Encycl. N.Z. III. 599/1 Noxious weeds..are here listed... Winged thistle. 1975Times 30 Aug. 12/7 An international panel..[is] recommending a major development effort to turn..the winged bean into a main crop. 4. fig. (or in fig. context): Capable of or performing some movement or action figured as flight, ‘flying’; flying or passing swiftly, swift, rapid.
1513Douglas æneis ix. viii. 30 The weyngit messengeir, Fame. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. iii. 16 Combe downe his haire; looke, looke, it stands vpright Like Lime-twigs set to catch my winged soule. 1596― 1 Hen. IV, iv. iv. 2 Beare this sealed Briefe With winged haste to the Lord Marshall. 1600― A.Y.L. iv. i. 142 Ros... A Womans thought runs before her actions. Orl. So do all thoughts, they are wing'd. 16..Lust's Domin. i. ii. (1657) B 5 b, Old time I'le..be a foot-boy to thy winged hours. 1638P. Vincent True Relat. in Mass. Hist. Coll. (1837) Ser. iii. VI. 39 Divers loopholes, through which they let fly their winged messengers [i.e. arrows]. 1639Fuller Holy War iv. vii. (1640) 180 Which race [sc. the Spanish gennet], for their winged speed, the Poets feigned to be begot of the wind. 1651― etc. Abel Rediv., Ramus 327 He was belov'd of all that lov'd the fame of learning; for he had a winged name. [Cf. Cicero, nomen nostrum volitare et vagari.] 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 508 The winged Thunder takes his way From the cold North. 1709Prior Henry & Emma 333 And winged Deaths in whistling Arrows fly. 1799Campbell Pleas. Hope ii. 377 What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel-visits, few and far between. 1821Clare Vill. Minstrel I. 175 With double speed the wing'd hour gallops by. 1824A. Grant Mem. & Corr. (1844) III. 65 The dear old friends with whom I passed that winged week. 1866Lowell At Comm. Dinner, A kind of winged prose that could fly if it would. 1877Mrs. Forrester Mignon viii, Oswald leaves her with winged heels to make his arrangements. 1877Tennyson Harold iii. ii, Wing'd souls flying Beyond all change and in the eternal distance To settle on the Truth. b. esp. of words or speech (rendering or imitating the Homeric phrase ἔπεα πτερόεντα).
1616Chapman Odyss. x. 488 Circe..Bowing her neare me, these wing'd words did vse. 1697Dryden æneis iv. 388 Then thus, with winged Words, the God began. 1791Cowper Iliad xxii. 92 His mother..Then in wing'd accents, weeping, him bespake. 1813Byron Br. Abydos i. viii, Through her ears Those winged words like arrows sped. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxvi, When our own winged words seem to be hovering around us. 5. Comb., as (in sense 4) winged-footed, winged-heeled, † (in sense 3 a) winged-leaved adjs.
1869Ruskin Q. of Air i. §26 There..is born the shepherd of the clouds, *winged-footed, and deceiving. 1590*Winged heeld [see wingy a. 4, quot. 1596]. 1808Cobbett Weekly Reg. 25 June 1001 If..such a winged-heeled gentleman..should be to be found in their country.
1824Loudon Green-house Comp. i. 88 Lotus jacobæus,..A..pea-flower, on a delicate *winged-leaved plant. Hence wingedly |ˈwɪŋɪdlɪ| adv.; wingedness |ˈwɪŋɪdnɪs|.
1651Davenant Gondibert i. ii. lxvii, (So *wingedly he wheeles) No one could catch, what all with trouble finde. 1710R. Ward Life H. More 146 So lightly and wingedly did he pass through it. 1818Keats Endym. i. 813 Nor with aught else can our souls interknit So wingedly.
1787Beckford Italy (1834) II. 325 Such a palpable manifestation of archangelic beauty and *wingedness. 1909W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity i. x. 172 Here we see that the one ‘dose’ of wingedness—as we may call it—sufficed only to bring the wings to half the full size, and two ‘doses’ are needed to develop them properly. ▪ II. winged, ppl. a.|wɪŋd| [f. wing v. + -ed1.] 1. Shot or wounded in the wing.
1789Ess. on Shooting xiv. 223 He [sc. the dog] should be held in a string, ready to be slipped in case of need, after a winged partridge, or a wounded hare. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 149 Winged, wounded, or dead birds. 1865Meredith Rhoda Fleming xix, He like a winged eagle, striving to raise himself from time to time. 2. Brushed with a bird's wing (wing v. 7).
1866Whittier Snow-bound 156 We sat the clean-winged hearth about. |