WINGED
WINGED, participle passive1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying.2.adjective Having wings; as a winged fowl. Genesis 1:21.3. Swift; rapid; as with winged haste.4. Wounde...
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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WINGED, participle passive1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying.2.adjective Having wings; as a winged fowl. Genesis 1:21.3. Swift; rapid; as with winged haste.4. Wounde...
WINGLESS, adjective Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.
WINGY, adjective Having wings; rapid; as wingy speed.
WINK, verb intransitive [G. wink and wince are radically one word.]1. To shut the eyes; to close the eyelids.They are not blind, but they wink2. To close and open the eyelids.3....
WINKER, noun One who winks.
WINKING, participle present tense Shutting the eyes; shutting and opening the eyelids; hinting by closing the eye; conniving at; overlooking.
WINKINGLY, adverb With the eye almost closed.
WINNER, noun [from win.] One who gains by success in competition or contest.
WINNING, participle present tense [from win.]1. Gaining success in competition or contest.2.adjective Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as a winning address.WINNING, ...
WINNOW, verb transitive [Latin, a fan.]1. To separate and drive off the chaff from grain by means of wind. Grain is winnowed by a fan, or by a machine, or by pouring it out of a...
WINNOWED, participle passive Separated from the chaff by wind; sifted; examined.
WINNOWER, noun One who winnows.
WINNOWING, participle present tense Separating from the chaff by wind; examining.
WINTER, noun1. The cold season of the year. Astronomically considered, winter commences in northern latitudes when the sun enters Capricorn, or at the solstice about the 21st of...
WINTER-APPLE, noun [winter and apple.] An apple that keeps well in winter.
WINTER-BARLEY, noun [winter and barley.] A kind of barley which is sowed in autumn.
WINTER-BEATEN, adjective [winter and beat.] Harassed by the severe weather of winter.
WINTER-BERRY, noun [winter and berry.] A plant of the genus Prinos.
WINTER-BLOOM, noun [winter and bloom.] A plant of the genus Azalea.
WINTER-CHERRY, noun [winter and cherry.] A plant of the genus Physalis, and its fruit, which is of the size of a cherry.
WINTER-CITRON, noun [winter and citron.] A sort of pear.
WINTER-CRESS, noun [winter and cress.] A plant of the genus Erysimum.
WINTER-CROP, noun [winter and crop.] A crop which will bear the winter, or which may be converted into fodder during the winter.
WINTER-FALLOW, noun [winter and fallow.] Ground that is fallowed in winter.
WINTER-GARDEN, noun [winter and garden.] An ornamental garden for winter.
WINTER-GREEN, noun [winter and green.] A plant of the genus Pyrola, useful as a vulnerary.
WINTER-KILL, verb transitive [winter and kill.] To kill by means of the weather in winter; as, to winter-kill wheat or clover.WINTER-KILL, verb intransitive To be killed by the ...