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Winged
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.
2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. [R.] How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake. J. S. Harford.
3. Swift; rapid. "Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal." Shak.
4. Wounded or hurt in the wing.
5. Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.
6. Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.
7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. "The winged air darked with plumes." Milton.