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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 70 Furth she quicklye galops, with wingflight swallolyke hastning.

1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 114 Put under the wing-Pinions on each side the long slices of flesh which you did cut from the Breast-bone.

1704 J. Petiver Gazophylacii III. 37 Its Belly, Wing-shoulders, Collar, and about the Eyes white.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 343 The exterior wing~feathers are black.

1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 3 Interior wing-quills externally margined.

1826 G. Samouelle Gen. Direct. collecting Exotic Insects & Crustacea 37 The Pterigostia or wing-bones, hairy.

1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 25/1 It [sc. a bat] hybernates..snugly wrapped up in the wing-membranes.

1856 Zoologist 14 5157 The wing-veins of insects.

1856 Zoologist 14 5195 The Wing-rays of Insects.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 100 Wing-patch resolved into two bars.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 174 When very young, the wing-markings more fulvous.

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 269 Those..which can soar are mostly large birds, with a relatively large wing~area.

1897 ‘N. Blanchan’ Bird Neighbors 143 Bank Swallow... About an inch shorter than the English sparrow, but apparently much larger because of its wide wing-spread.

1902 Spectator 26 July 112 The wing-power of the dragon-flies.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 2/3 For wing-beats of great angels we would hear the herdsman's call.

1910 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 432/1 Orthopteroid wing-neuration.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 469/1 The darkening of wing-patterns in many species of Lepidoptera.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 485 Head askew, arches his back and hunched wingshoulders.

1927 Daily Express 31 Aug. 8/3 It..is shaped like the wing-bone of a chicken.

1943 A. Clarke Coll. Plays (1963) 173 This big wind that filled My wingbones blew me into the trees.

1946 Nature 21 Dec. 904/1 The accompanying table shows..the weight in kgm. and wing-length in cm. of the female.

1949 Brit. Birds 42 187 The wing-span was found to measure nearly four feet, and the length was 21 inches.

1957 New Yorker 13 July 22/2 We got over six hundred bats, from insectivorous ones with an eight-inch wingspread to fruit eaters with a five-foot wingspread.

1971 Sci. Amer. Dec. 79/3 For aerodynamic reasons large birds have a slow wingbeat.

1977 P. Way Super-Celeste 123 The skull and upper bones of the [eagle's] wingspan had.. driven like a cannon ball into the pilot's belly.

1897 F. W. Lanchester Aerodonetics (1908) 353 The reaction of the air on the upper and under wing surfaces.

1908 H. G. Wells War in Air x. 317 It had taken only an hour or so to substitute wing stays from the second flying-machine and to replace the nuts he had himself removed.

1910 R. Ferris How it Flies xx. 474 Wing Plan, the outline of the wing or main plane surface as viewed from above.

1910 R. Ferris How it Flies xx. 474 Wing skid, a small skid, or runner, placed under the tip of the wings of an aeroplane.

1912 Q. Rev. July 231 If the 1000 lb. aeroplane is to travel slower, it must have a larger wing-spread.

1918 Pagé & Montariol Gloss. Aviation Terms 33/1 Wing span.

1920 Flight 12 864/1 The Loughead S1 model, as it is called, is a single-seater biplane with a wing span of 28ft.

1975 Farnborough 76 (Soc. Brit. Aerospace Companies) 30/2 The world's smallest jet aircraft, the Bede BD-5J..with a wing span of only 17ft.

1978 R. Jansson News Caper 9 There was the fighter again, flying parallel half a winglength away.

1978 Sci. Amer. Nov. 135/1 In 1899 the Wrights built a biplane kite with a five-foot wingspread that embodied their wing-twisting roll control.