单词 | to make wing |
释义 | > as lemmasto make wing b. to make wing (cf. 3a and make v.1 45): to make one's way by flying, to fly. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] to make winga1616 to stretch wing to weather1825 flag1848 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. ii. 52 Light thickens, And the Crow makes Wing toth' Rookie Wood. View more context for this quotation 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xiii. 281 Hence he made wing, taking a long and strong flight to Mizpah. 1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 lxxxvii. 23 The dastard Crow, that to the wood made wing. 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 323 The weary fowls of heaven make wing in vain, To escape your wrath. < as lemmas |
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