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wingn.

Brit. /wɪŋ/, U.S. /wɪŋ/
Forms: plural Middle English wenge; β. Middle English wengen, winguene, wynguene, whingen, hwingen, Middle English wingen, wyngen, -yn, -on; γ. Middle English wenges, (Middle English Orm. -ess), Middle English weengus, Middle English wengis, Middle English, 1500s weyngis, Middle English wengys, wengez, weingis, wengges; Middle English wyenges, wingges, whinges, Middle English–1500s wyngis, wynges, Middle English -ys, whyngis, -ys, Middle English–1500s whynges, Middle English, 1500s–1600s Scottish wingis, 1500s–1600s -es, 1500s– wings. singular Middle English wenge, Middle English weng, whenge, weynge, Middle English–1500s Scottish weyng, 1500s Scottish weing; Middle English–1500s wynge, Middle English–1600s winge, Middle English–1500s wyng, whyng(e, 1500s whing, wynke, 1500s– wing.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Middle English, first in plural forms wenge , wengen , wenges , < Old Norse vængir , accusative vængi , plural of vængr (Swedish, Danish vinge ) wing of a bird, aisle, etc.; replacing Old English feþra wings, plural of feþer , and fiþere (see feather n. 3).
I. The limb of a bird, and related uses.
1.
a. Each of the organs of flight of any flying animal, as a bird, bat, or insect.In birds the wings are specially modified fore-limbs; in bats (and the extinct pterodactyls, etc.), extensions of the skin attached to modified parts of the fore-limbs (see bat n.1); in insects, membranous expansions attached to the thorax in addition to the limbs. In a few birds the wings are rudimentary, and either functionless (as in the Apteryx) or used only to assist in swimming or walking (as in Penguins).Occasionally loosely applied to the enlarged fins of flying-fishes and to the appendages of flying squirrels, etc. which serve for movements resembling flight. false wing (Ornithology) = winglet n. 2b (see also bastard wing n. at bastard n., adj., and adv. Compounds 1).
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > wing
wingc1175
flightc1275
pinion?a1425
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van1815
the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > wing or wings > part of
pinion?a1425
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wrista1836
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propatagium1872
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patagium1887
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c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 A vuhel com flon from houene into orðe; her he uette feþer-home and wenge.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 105 Ase brid hwenne he fleon wule stureð hise wengen.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14604 Þat alle heore [sc. sparrows'] whingen noht awemmed neoren.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 64/356 He ȝifht eov..wynguene for-to fleo, And feþerene to beren eov up-on heiȝ.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 230/388 Þe drem of is winguene murie was.
13.. K. Alis. 485 Him thoughte a goshauk with gret flyght..yenith and sprad abrod his wyngyn.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 173 The Scharnebudes kinde, Of whos nature this I finde, That in the hoteste of the dai,..He sprat his wynge and up he fleth.
a1400 Leg. Rood 221 Þe Egle is frikest fowle in flye, Ouer all fowles to wawe hys wenge.
c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 2196 The byrde..bylle undyr wynge layede.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 18521 Wonder hygh ther sate a krowe, His whynges splayynge to and ffro.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 522/1 Wenge, of a fowle or bryde.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 7 On fute and weynge ascendand to the hycht.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. B.ii That all maner of fowle that hathe hole fete sholde be reysed vnder the wynge and not aboue.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxxi. 762 The fruite [of the maple tree] is long, flat, and thinne, almost lyke to a feather of a small birde, or lyke the whing of a grashopper.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vi. 213 There are Fishes that have Wings.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 513 So to the beam the Bat tenacious clings, And pendant round it clasps his leathern wings.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 49 Bats on their webby wings in darkness move.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iii. 73 The beautiful little blue butterfly, with golden spots on his wings.
1867 W. S. Dallas tr. C. L. Nitzsch Pterylography 27 The false wing (ala notha) described by Möhring.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 304 The genus Prionotus..resembles Dactylopterus in general form, but the wings are much smaller.
1912 S. E. White Land of Footpr. xiv. 180 Spreading wide their wings at the last moment to check their speed.
b. The wing of a bird, used as food. Also, the shoulder of a hare or rabbit.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > game > [noun] > flesh of rabbit or hare
coneya1450
wingc1470
underground mutton1946
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > cuts or parts of fowl
wingc1470
soul?a1475
giblet1546
merrythought1598
sideman1632
sidesman1642
drumstick1646
pinion1655
side bone1712
chicken liver1733
pope's nose1788
liver wing1796
apron1807
parson's nose1836
stumps1845
oyster1855
supreme1856
wishbone1860
pulling bone1877
carcass1883
pully-bone1897
pull-bonea1903
chicken breast1941
chicken tender1955
c1470 Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 64 Cony rost. A cony tak and drawe hym,..rost hym and lard hym then raise his leggs and hys winges.
a1530 Frere & Boye (Ritson) 154 His fader toke a capons wynge,..And badde hym ete apace.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. iv. 29 A pestle of a Larke, or Plouers wing.
1656 F. Osborne Advice to Son (ed. 4) iv. 124 A Carver at Court,..who being laughed at..for saying The wing of a Rabbet, maintained it as congruous, as the fore-legge of a Capon, a phrase used in Scotland.
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. iv. 56 Wise palates choose the wings of pregnant hare.
1820 Ld. Byron Blues ii. 42 Miss Lilac, permit me to help you;—a wing?
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xlvi. 50 Something light for supper—the wing of a roasted fowl.
1841 ‘Nimrod’ in Sporting Oracle 48 The most vulnerable part of the rabbit is about its neck and wings, as the shoulders of this animal are called.
c. The wing of a bird (usually of a hen, goose, or turkey) used as a brush: cf. wing v. 7.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > other apparatus for sweeping
wing1573
sweep1825
carpet sweeper1859
sweeper1862
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 14v Husbandly furniture... wing, cartnaue & bushel.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 70 Then are the two women to have each of them a cleane bowle to wringe the honey into, and the man is to stande ready with a winge in his hande.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 243/2 Broom, Wing, Winnow sheet, and Sack with a Band.
1710 D. Hilman Tusser Rediv. Sept. (1744) 116 A Straw-fork and Rake to turn the Straw off from the thresh'd Corn, a Fan and Wing to clean it.
d. A figure or imitation of a wing (e.g. on an image of a bird, etc., or on an angler's artificial fly).
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > wing > figure or imitation of
wing1552
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > parts of artificial fly
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1552–3 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 94 Cupide a small boye..with a payre of winges of gold.
1584 Kenilw. Inv. in W. Scott Kenilw. Note K 6 rowlers and ij wings for the spreade eagle.
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 34 (title of poem) [in the form of two pairs of wings] Easter wings.
1682 J. Dryden Mac Flecknoe 13 Choose for thy Command Some peaceful Province in Acrostick Land. There thou mayst Wings display, and Alters raise, And torture one poor Word ten thousand ways.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 58. ¶4, 6 The Pair of Wings consist of twelve Verses, or rather Feathers... A god of Love, who is always painted with Wings.
1853 J. Jackson Pract. Fly-fisher (1880) 10 To make a winged Fly... Wings; a piece of feather, stripped from a Snipe's quill.
e. With qualification ( goose-wing, fly's wing) used as a type of something of no value. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless
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beggary?1548
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paltry?1566
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tartar1590
garbage1592
bag of winda1599
a cracked or slit groat1600
kitchen stuff1600
tilta1603
nothing?1608
bauble1609
countera1616
a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620
buttermilk1630
dross1632
paltrement1641
cattle1643
bagatelle1647
nothingness1652
brimborion1653
stuff1670
flap-dragon1700
mud1706
caput mortuuma1711
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shice1859
punk1869
hogwash1870
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shit1890
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tripe1895
dreck1905
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cannon fodder1917
shite1928
skunk1929
crut1937
chickenshit1938
crud1943
Mickey Mouse1958
gick1959
garbo1978
turd1978
pants1994
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iv. 36 Thei ne gyueth nouȝte of god one gose wynge.
c1450 Mankind 783 in Macro Plays 29 Tysche! a flyes weynge!
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 7th Serm. sig. Lvi He was not able to giue so muche as a gose wynge, for they were none of hys to giue.
2.
a. Attributed to supernatural beings, as angels, demons, etc., and to fabulous creatures, as dragons, griffins, etc.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > wing(s) of
wingc1175
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wicker wingsa1637
pennon1667
van1667
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8024 Þatt all þatt hallȝhe genge. Þatt borrȝhenn iss þurrh marrtirdom Flæh upp wiþþ tweȝȝenn wengess.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. vi. 2.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 236 And aungellych hyse wengis gan he sprede.
a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 2675 Whan hit schon þe briȝte sonne, His wingges schon so þe glas.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1106 Biforn hir stood hir sone Cupido Vp on his shuldres wynges hadde he two.
c1503 Beuys of Southhamptowne (Pynson) 2527 Beuys..hyt the dragon vnder the wynge.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. iv. 34 The Harpyes on ws fell, With huge faird of weingis and mony ȝell.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 579 A fiery Globe Of Angels on full sail of wing flew nigh. View more context for this quotation
1815 Ld. Byron Destr. Sennacherib iii The Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.
1821 W. Wordsworth Eccl. Sonn. iii. v. 4 The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
1885 T. Hardy Mere Interlude in Changed Man (1913) 269 Since my poor husband left me to wear his wings.
b. Attributed to inanimate or abstract things represented as flying, or as carrying one swiftly along (esp. in on the wings of).
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [noun] > flying (as) with wings > one who or that which > attribute of thing represented as
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum ii. i. (Add. MS. 27944) In olde tyme poetes peyntide þe winde wiþ wynges.
?1510 T. More tr. G. Pico della Mirandola in tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. e.iv Whinges of the loue of god.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms ciii[i]. 3 Thou makest the cloudes thy charet, and goest vpon the wynges of the wynde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ps. cxxxviii[i]. 9 Yf I take the wynges of the mornynge.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxiii. A Riches make them selues wynges.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 59 When I should mount with wings of victorie. View more context for this quotation
1608 R. Tofte tr. L. Ariosto Satyres i. 11 With inke To giue his fame large wings.
1611 W. Mure Misc. Poems iv. 8 Deceau'd by loues alluiring wingis.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 196 I haue pursu'd her, as Loue hath pursued mee, which hath beene on the wing of all occasions. View more context for this quotation
1665 R. Boyle Disc. i. i, in Occas. Refl. sig. B4 When a pious Soul is once got upon the wing of Contemplation.
1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs (ed. 2) ii. 253 Give me the Wings of Faith, to rise Within the Veil.
1709 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions 89 Upon the Wings of Time born swift away.
1829 W. Scott Rob Roy (new ed.) I. Introd. p. lxxv A cold north-east wind, with frost on its wing.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. xix. 35 Where the foe..seems to come and go on the wings of the wind.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VII. lxxii. 113 [The Scots in 1640] seemed to be, indeed, carried forward on the wings of destiny.
3. transferred and figurative.
a. Power or means of flight, or of action figured as flight; action or manner of flying, flight.
(a) in reference to literal flying.
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1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 263 Þe larke, þat is..wel awey of wenge [v.rr. wynge, whenge] swifter þan þe pecok.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 328 A Swalwe swift of winge.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 316 The self same place where hee First lighted from his Wing . View more context for this quotation
1706 M. Prior Ode to Queen v Upward the Noble Bird directs his Wing.
1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland x. 60 As soon as the young Brood gets wing.
1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith v. 225 The bird of strongest wing may be driven out to sea by the tempest.
(b) figurative in various connections. (See also Phrases 3.)
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?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 105 Þe treowe ancres ȝete þet god efnið to briddes ha spredeð hare wengen & makeð creoiz of ham seolf.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxxxviii. 7 Take twa wenges of charite.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 473 He ordeynede godis of vertu wyngis to men to fle to heuene.
1418 26 Pol. Poems xiv. 47 To fliȝe to hyȝe, treste not þy wyng.
1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. C4 Other excellent points I could..pinch him with to the like purpose, were I not contented to strike the winge, and come downe to his capacitie.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 30 Thy affections, which do hold a wing Quite from the flight of all thy auncestors. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. vii. 73 Knowledge the Wing wherewith we flye to heauen. View more context for this quotation
1648 G. Daniel Eclog. i. 120 You have a wing of Strength, might toure into The purest Region fancie breaths.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. v. i. 58 Give wing to your desires, and let 'em fly.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. x. x. 78 Every thing they said to me, seemed to lend me wings to run away.
1830 W. Scott Monastery (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xxv When the peculiar kind of folly keeps the wing no longer.
1849 J. C. Hare Serm. Preacht Herstmonceux Church II. iv. 80 In old times,..many stories got wing.
b. In biblical and derived expressions referring to a mother bird's use of her wings for the protection of her young (cf. esp. Matthew 23:37); thus virtually = protecting care. (See also Phrases 1e(a)).
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > embrace or keeping
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a1300 E.E. Psalter xvi[i]. 8 Hile me under schadou of þi wenges twa.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxiii. 7 Vnder the shadowe of thy wynges wil I reioyse.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 107 His [sc. God's] wingis ar thy weirlie weid, His pennis ar thy strang defence.
1721 E. Young Revenge iv. i Why did I leave my tender father's wing, And venture into love?
1883 D. C. Murray Hearts xxxiii Azubah, once more under the shelter of her aunt's wing.
4. transferred.
a. of (such-and-such) wing, used, like feather = kind or description of bird (usually figurative). Obsolete except in echoes of Ezekiel 17:23.
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the world > animals > birds > [phrase] > of a particular kind
of (such-and-such) wing1598
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Phormio i. v, in Terence in Eng. 406 All alike: all feathered of one wing [L. omnes congruont]: knowe one, and know all.
1601 W. Shakespeare Phoenix & Turtle in R. Chester Loves Martyr 170 From this Session interdict Euery foule of tyrant wing, Saue the Eagle feath'red King.
1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. D2 OF all the mad rascalls (that are of this wing) the Abraham-man is the most phantastick.
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 90v A prying eye, a listning eare, and a prating tongue, are all birds of one wing.
1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xvii. 23 All foule of euery wing.
1630 Pathomachia iv. iii. 35 Here is another Bird of the same Wing I beleeue.
b. Qualified by a restrictive word, or in technical phrases, = bird or birds.
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the world > animals > birds > [noun] > bird
fowlOE
bird?c1225
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feathera1616
feather-monger1767
feathered friend1933
1601 W. Shakespeare Phoenix & Turtle in R. Chester Loves Martyr 170 Let the bird of lowdest lay..Herauld sad and trumpet be: To whose sound chaste wings obay.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 188 The Prince of Augurs..drew A sure presage from ev'ry wing that flew.
1840 R. Bremner Excursions Denmark I. 293 We did not wonder to see scarcely a single wing of game in a whole day's journey.
1874 Kennel Club Cal. & Stud Bk. 1 p. xii He does not lose one [point] for each fault, providing it is simply not dropping to wing or shot.
c. A flock (of plover).
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of (plover) > flock of
congregationc1430
wingc1810
c1810 A. Mackintosh Driffield Angler 294 Wing of plover.
II. Something regarded as comparable to a bird's wing; a lateral appendage or side piece.
5. An appliance or appendage resembling or analogous to a wing in form or function.
a. An artificial apparatus attached to the human arms or shoulders, (a) according to early accounts, for flying through the air, (b) for assistance in swimming.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > [noun] > apparatus attached to human body
featherhama800
wing1297
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > swimming > swimming equipment
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water wing1901
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nose clip1919
armband1927
flipper1945
fin1960
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 671 Vor þat men ssolde is enchantement se, He let him makie wengen [v.rr. wyngon, wingen, wynges, whyngys] an hei vor to fle.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 37 This Dedalus..Hath mad to fle diverse wynges For him and for his Sone also.
c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 562 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 23 [Symon Magus] passit vpe, and his weyngis dycht,..and flaw, as he a foule had bene.
1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 444 The head that turns at super-lunar things, Poiz'd with a tail, may steer on Wilkins' wings.
1908 Daily Chron. 29 July 5/6 Being unable to swim he had made use of a pair of swimming wings.
b. One of the floats of a waterwheel or sails of a windmill.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > windmill > sail
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1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope v. x For the swyftnesse of the water he must nedes passe vnder the whele of the mylle, And god wote yf the wynges of the mylle bete hym wel or not.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. x. 44 b Windmilles, hauing euery one of them 10. wings.
1609 W. Biddulph Trauels Certaine Englishmen 15 There are very many wind milles there, hauing ten wings a piece.
1681 J. Owen Enq. Evangelical Churches ii. 16 To render the Gospel-Church-State a Machin..to be turned unto any Interest like the Wings of a Mill unto the Wind.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sails,..Windmill-wings.
1773 W. Emerson Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) 284 Wing,..as the hands in a water wheel; a part of a sail, &c.
1866 C. W. Hatfield Hist. Notices Doncaster 1st Ser. 203 The wings of some of the these [wind~mills] describe a circuit of 100 feet diameter.
c. Poetically or rhetorically applied to the sails of a ship. (See also white wings n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun]
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1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 14 Your Argosies with portlie sayle..As they flie by them with theyr wouen wings . View more context for this quotation
1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 222 All their Canvass Wings.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xiii. 9 While flew the vessel on her snowy wing.
1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 160 The seaman's chariots, wandering on the brine With linen wings!
1878 J. Miller Songs Italy 29 The yellow wide wings of a bark.
d. Various: see quots.: spec. (a) one of the planes of an aeroplane; (b) transferred (plural) in the Royal Air Force, a certificate of ability to pilot an aeroplane, indicated by the addition to the uniform of a badge representing a pair of wings; (c) slang an arm; also transferred.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > fighter pilot > insignia of
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1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (rev. ed.) App. p. xlii There are..rockets made without sticks. Fix to the small ones..four wings, in the nature of arrow feathers.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 159 The use of wings, rudders, oars,..to direct the course of a balloon.
1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Pair of Wings, oars. Cant.
1823 P. Egan Grose's Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Wings, arms.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wing..2. A vane of a rotating fan... 10. (Milling.) A strip, commonly of leather, attached to the skirt of the runner to sweep the meal into the spout.
1883 W. Aitken Lays of Line 65 Cam' an auld sodger yince wha was short o' a wing.
1904 O. Wright & W. Wright Brit. Patent 6732/1904 1 The superposed horizontal surfaces..formed by stretching cloth upon frames of wood and wire, constitute the ‘wings’, or supporting part of the apparatus.
1910 R. Ferris How it Flies 17 Aeroplanes are those forms of flying machines which depend for their support in the air upon the spread of surfaces which are variously called wings, sails, or planes.
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings i. 5 The pilots have passed their tests and been decorated with wings.
1918 J. T. B. McCudden Five Years in R.F.C. 1 Having qualified for his R.F.C. wings in July of 1912.
1947 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Apr. 20/1 He came up with a bad arm during the season, and had been troubled before with it. If the big man's wing behaves this year he should be of considerable value.
1964 J. Cheever Wapshot Scandal ii. xxvii. 259 He..began to pitch the eggs... He had a good wing and by heaving the eggs far away..he was able to divert the..crowd.
1967 Boston Globe 22 Mar. 11/1 Wins wings as stewardess for American Airlines.
1976 Publishers Weekly 19 Apr. 78/3 Mike Hagen earns his wings as a crop duster in rural Florida.
6. A lateral part or appendage: in various connections. (See also senses 7 12.)
a. A lateral or outlying portion of a space or region.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > part lying to either hand
winga1400
side1428
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 1051 An-other wynge of þe werld.
1794 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 491 On the north end it subsides gradually into extensive pasture grounds; while on the south it slopes more steeply in a shorter distance... On either wing is a thick grove of..forest trees.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xi. ii. 49 Königsberg, Preussen, the easternmost outlying wing of his long straggling Dominions.
1874 J. S. Blackie Lett. to Wife (1909) 228 The Hill of Howth, forming the north wing of the bay of Dublin.
1920 Westm. Gaz. 16 June 10/1 His fore-hand return across court off the service into the right-hand wing of his opponent's base line.
b. Something forming a lateral boundary, as the side wall of a dock, sluice, chimney, etc.; also, a lateral component, extension, or complement of a structure, etc., e.g. either of the retaining walls at the ends of a bridge; also spec. of jumps for horse-riding: see quot. 19531.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > the side of anything
sideeOE
cheeka1400
coasta1400
wing?1482
flank1624
siding1627
broadside1632
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > lateral boundary
sideOE
wing?1482
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > [noun] > show-jumping > series or parts of fences
oxer1859
treble1895
ground-line1951
wing1953
?1482 J. Kay tr. G. Caoursin Siege of Rhodes A place..by the weste banke of Rhodes: whiche maked with her walles and wynges a plesaunt hauen..and ys called the tour of Seynt Nycholas.
1531 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII V. 180 Settyng the wynkes of the said slewse new made.
1663 W. Charleton Chorea Gigantum 24 The outward Circle or wing of stones [of Stonehenge].
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 107 An apt falling-back of the Back, and convenient gathering of the Wings, and Brest of the Chimney.
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 128 You may on each side [of the chimney] raise a Wing of Plaister.
1721 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture (ed. 2) I. 67 The Wings (that is, the spaces between the Wall and the Columns, which is not comprehended in the breadth of the Atrium).
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 14 All this Wing of Wall..is exposed as a Butt to the..Blasts of the North-East.
1821 Rich Journ. Persepolis 27 Aug. The mountains..form a wing of stupendous perpendicular cliffs.
1850 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 5) I. 206 Fillet,..a small flat face or band used principally between mouldings, to separate them from each other in classical architecture... When this appendage is..attached to the sides [of the moulding, it is called] its wings.
1851 B'ham & Midl. Gardeners' Mag. Apr. 38 Many fine trees which have..become unsightly..by losing whole wings at a time.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wing.. A lateral extension of an abutment... A leaf of a gate or double door... A side dam on a river shore to contract the channel.
1895 Daily News 14 Mar. 3/5 Tribune, the winner of the Beaudesert Steeplechase, was objected to for jumping the wing of one of the fences.
1953 G. Brooke Introd. Riding 12 Wings to a fence, something in the nature of hurdles placed on either side and at an angle to a fence to prevent a horse from running out to either hand.
1953 G. Brooke Introd. Riding iv. 39 It is advisable to start over a small fence with wings.
1960 Times 23 July 9/4 The moment to hit the pony is when it is well into the wings and about half a stride from the jump.
1977 J. Kidd Horse & Pony Man. iv. 56 When the fence is introduced always place wings or sloping poles on either side to discourage the horse from running out.
c. A side piece (usually projecting), a lateral projection or member (in various tools, pieces of mechanism, or other structures: see quots.); spec. the part of a ploughshare which extends sideways and cuts the bottom of the furrow.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > other parts
neck?a1425
buttc1425
cheek1487
wing1577
face1601
ear1678
wood1683
strig1703
thumb-piece1760
jaws1789
crown1796
lug1833
sprig1835
point angle1869
bulb1885
nosepiece1983
the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > coulter > fin
wing1577
fin1652
tush1652
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 21 They haue a litle wyng on the ryght syde of the Coulter, whiche wyng is to be remooued to whiche syde you list.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 15 b/1 The winges of the Trepane, which delicatelye and easilye cut.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 286/2 The Feathers or Fly, or Wing [of a spinning-wheel] is that which the crooked Wyres are set in.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 42 Some place on the right side of the Coulter a small Wing or Finn.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 346 The wings or vanes revolve from 120 to 150 times in the minute.
1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 166 This second spade is provided with an iron wing upon its shaft, by which the digger..forces it with his foot into the ground.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Sinker..(Knitting-machine). A wheel with thin plates or projections, called wings,..used to depress (sink) the yarn between the needles.
1902 P. Marshall Metal Working Tools 13 The legs [of wing compasses]..when opened to the required width are secured by means of the thumb-screw which binds on to the projecting wing.
d. A projecting part of a fishing-net on one side of the main or central part.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > section of net
ran1580
deeping1615
wing1678
1678 Act 30 Chas. II c. 9 §1 Above Fifty yards in length and Six yards in breadth or depth in the wing of the Nett.
1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 295 A Tench Weel without wings..An Eel Weel, with loose pits and wings.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 850/2 The salmon, swimming up the current, come in contact with the bar-net, and turning to pass around it, find themselves opposed by the wing.
e. In a carriage, each of a pair of curved pieces extending over the wheels to provide protection from the splashing of mud; the mudguard of a motor vehicle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > mudguard
wing1783
mudguard1850
splashguard1917
mudwing1927
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > wing
wing1928
1783 Morning Chron. 14 Mar. 4/2 (advt.) A new roomy Gig, with head to take off, wings, and new harness.
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 215 Wings are fixed to the sides or elbows of the chaise bodies..; their use is to form a rest for the arm, and shelter the passenger from the dirt which splashes from the wheels.
1881 J. W. Burgess Pract. Treat. Coach-building v. 50 The wings..sometimes still are of wood, in which case they are hooped to the perch by iron hoops.
1928 Daily Mail 25 July 9/3 The force of the impact threw the car temporarily out of control, but with its front wings crumpled it continued its dash towards London.
1955 Times 10 May 7/7 The visibility forward would be better if it took in the near side front wing, but the rearward view through the 3ft. 9in. wide window is excellent.
f. Each of two side pieces at the top of an armchair against which the head may be rested.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > parts of chairs > wing
wing1907
1907 G. O. Wheeler Old Eng. Furnit. 190 The wings formed by the arm enclosures were padded.
1911 F. M. Crawford Deadly Smile in Uncanny Tales ii A great old leathern arm-chair with wings.
7.
a. Either of the two divisions (right wing n. and adj., left wing n. and adj.) on each side of the main body or centre of an army or fleet in battle array; also, each of the two divisions of a regiment or an air force.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > wing or flank
wingc1400
horn1533
out-wingc1540
flank1548
point1550
sleeve1574
left1693
right1694
pivot flank1786
reverse flank1792
wheeling flank1796
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > wing
right winga1450
point1550
wing1622
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > regiment > wing of regiment
wing1868
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > unit of
flight1914
flying corps1914
wing1915
flying squadron1917
group1919
c1400 Brut ccxxiii. 283 Þe Scottis comen ferseliche in iiij wengus.
c1400 Brut ccxxiii. 285 Þo hade euery Englisshe bataile ij wenges of pris Archiers.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xvi. 2520 A noþir weynge þai saw cum sone Off Inglis men.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 230 Anthony..ordeyned archers & crosbowes to be vnder the wynges of hys batayll.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxx. 64/2 Therle of Northampton & therle of Arundell with the second batell were on a wyng in good order.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. ix. 16 When they which were of the lefte wynge, sawe that the right side was discomfited.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 333 Wee did presently battell-wise cast our selues into a Wing, as if we had been the Turkish Gallies.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 617 Their doubl'd Ranks they bend From Wing to Wing. View more context for this quotation
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 294 The Armies coming close up, the Wings engaged first.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Wings,..are also the skirts or extremities of a fleet when it is ranged into a line a-breast.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. iv. 149 The European divisions were directed severally against the left and right wings.
1868 Queen's Reg. & Ord. Army ⁋300 When the Service Companies of a Regiment happen to be divided into Wings, the head Quarter wing will assign a due proportion of the Mess necessaries for the use of the other wing.
1915 C. G. Grey Tales Flying Services 71 One of the chief duties of this ‘wing’..was to look out for Zeppelins.
b. In football and similar games: The position of the forwards on either side of the centre; a player or players occupying this position. Cf. left wing n. and adj., right wing n. and adj.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > players or positions
wing-back1734
goalkeeper1789
outfielder1855
quarter1857
centre fielder1865
outfield1867
quarterback1867
right1867
centre1868
left wing1871
left-back1873
left half-back1873
centre forward1874
left-centre1877
right-centre1877
centre back1878
centre half-back1879
forward1879
back1880
right wing1880
right half-back1881
goaltender1882
right-winger1882
wing1882
centre half1884
left winger1884
inside1886
half1887
custodian1888
left half1888
midfielder1888
left wing1889
right half1889
centreman1890
midfield1890
outside right1890
outfieldsman1891
goalie1894
winger1896
infield1897
inside forward1897
inside right1897
outside forward1897
outside1898
outside left1900
rearguard1904
pivot1911
wing-man1942
keeper1957
link1958
linkman1963
midfield1976
1882 in T. Charles-Edwards & B. Richardson They saw it Happen (1958) 300 He was instantly robbed by Strachan, who passed it [sc. the football] to the left wing.
1898 J. Goodall Assoc. Football 38 Suddenly there will be a swift clear side-kick to the other wing.
c. A section of a political or other party, holding views deviating in one direction or the other from those generally held (often distinguished as left or right).[Cf. quot. 1670 at left wing n. 1 ]
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > group within a party
wing1879
party cell1931
tendency1974
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiii. 186 There is always a disreputable wing to the radical party.
1884 Christian Commonw. 21 Feb. 449/1 The democratic wing of the Tory party, of which Lord Randolph Churchill aspires to be the leader.
1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. 427 Significant also is the attitude of the Socialists, who now compose the Radical left wing.
8.
a. One of a pair of lateral projecting pieces of a garment on or near the shoulder, as of a doublet; also, a side-flap of a cap, etc.; in military uniform, a kind of epaulette (now worn by bandsmen) which stands out from the seam at the top of the shoulder.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > shoulder > wing or projection on
wing1412
puff wing1602
society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > patch or epaulette
wing1810
flash1918
shoulder board1949
shoulder tab1966
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > epaulette or shoulder knot
shoulder pointa1627
shoulder-knot1676
epaulette1783
wing1810
tags1837
shell1847
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > other
bouta1300
locketa1350
flipe1530
tarf1545
corneta1547
round tire1560
scuffe1599
lappet1601
mirror1601
flandana1685
rose1725
rounding1732
feather-peeper1757
screed1788
valance1791
busby-bag1807
cointise1834
wing1834
kredemnon1850
havelock1861
cache-peigne1873
pullover1875
stocking-foot1921
grummet1953
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. 67 Þer wer..Vauntbras with wynges, & rerebras þer-to.
1557 in W. Dugdale Orig. Jurid. (1666) lxx. 310 That none of the Companions except Knights or Benchers..wear..Wings in their Gowns.
1604 Meeting of Gallants sig. B2 There is as much perill betweene the wings and the skirts of one of their Doublets, as in all the liberties of London.
1678 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (rev. ed.) vii. 81 If short Sleeves be worn, she [who pushes fashion to an extreme] will have nothing but Wings.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 94/2 The Wings, are Welts or peeces set over the place on the top of the Shoulders, where the Body and Sleeves are set together.
1810 Army Gen. Order 19 Feb. Field Officers..are to wear Wings in addition to their Epaulettes.
1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 139 A linen cap with large wings which concealed the face.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 152 The whole of the remaining Clothing (with the exception of the wings and fringe).
1869 J. S. Blackie Lett. to Wife (1909) 181 A sort of spencer open in the middle, with two wings, one on each breast.
b. plural. The armpits. nonce-use. (Cf. Latin ala.)
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [noun] > armpit
armholea1325
armpita1333
oxterc1420
okselle1489
asselea1500
wings1586
axilla1616
enmontery1655
underarm1933
pit1955
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 499 He tooke hir with both his armes by the wings [Fr. les aisselles].
9.
a. A subordinate part of a building on one side of the main or central part. Also in extended use, any more or less separate section of a building, esp. of a hospital or prison.spec. in Fortification: see quot. 1704.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > additional or separate part
penthousea1400
wing1523
member1601
annexation1611
additionc1638
adject1784
annexe1829
extension1852
out-quarter1888
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > projecting subdivision
outshot1378
wing1523
limb1577
jambc1600
excursiona1626
return1625
flanker1631
pavilionc1676
1523 T. Wolsey in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 209 Who with his armye was..loged in the countrey in thre wardes and sundry winges.
a1652 I. Jones in B. Allsopp & R. A. Sayce Inigo Jones on Palladio (1970) II. iv. 40 This Edifice is formed all out of Circels..wch forme the too winges.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 345 The Court at Entrie, & Wings for Offices seeme to neere the streete.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Wings, in Fortification, are the large Sides of Horn-works, Crown-works, Tenailles, and the like Out~works.
1767 G. Whitefield Let. (1768) 12 Allowing another thousand for repairing the house, and building the two intended wings.
1820 W. Irving Christmas Eve in Sketch Bk. II. 61 It was an irregular building of some magnitude... One wing was evidently very ancient, with heavy stone~shafted bow windows.
1908 J. M. Sullivan Criminal Slang 27 Wing, a section of a prison.
1959 L. Lee Cider with Rosie 132 Hannah Brown was put to bed in the Woman's Wing, and Joseph lay in the Men's.
1967 Listener 1 June 718/3 Three weeks later he was back in C wing.
1981 C. Priest Affirmation iii. 19 I found a letter from the Governor of Durham Prison, saying that Uncle William had been admitted to the hospital wing.
b. Nautical (a) That part of the hold or space between decks which is next the ship's side. (b) In a steamer (see quot. 1846). (c) In a canal-boat or barge (see quot. 1906).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > hold > parts of hold
forepeak1693
peak1693
wing1730
forehold1790
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > side decks of paddle steamer
sponson1835
wing1846
wing-deck1889
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > board for legger on canal boat
wing1906
1730 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 25 Sept. Levelled the Hold from the Fore-hatchway clear aft,..and picked out the large Stones to lay in the Wings.
1805 in Naval Chron. 15 34 He..was carried down into one of the wings.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 370 The term wing is also applied to the projecting part of a steam-vessel's deck before and abaft each of the paddle-boxes; this is bounded by a thick plank called the sponsing-rim or wing-wale which extends from the extremity of the paddle-beam to the ship's side.
1906 Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 10/5 If the tunnel is too wide, boards projecting over the boat's side, termed ‘wings’, are brought into use for them [sc. ‘leggers’] to lie on.
c. Theatre. Each of the side-scenes on the stage; also plural (occasionally singular) the space at each side of the stage where these stand. Also in figurative phr. waiting in the wings and variants, ready to act or make an appearance; (for the moment) taking no part in the action.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > sides
side-scene1675
side wing1698
slips1771
prompt sidec1782
wing1790
side-slip1808
coulisse1819
prompt corner1872
tormentor1886
P1901
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > waiting [phrase]
on (also upon) the reserve1655
to watch the clock?1705
in waiting1769
waiting in the wings1876
1790 E. Malone Hist. Acct. Eng. Stage in Plays & Poems Shakspeare I. ii. 83 The technical modern term, wings, or side scenes.
1807 Director 2 330 The turning of one single wheel effects at once..the simultaneous retreat of the entire assemblage of wings and drops and flat.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 208 The little space there is between the wings and the wall; and one wing and another.
1847 W. J. Broderip Zool. Recreations 320 The frantic stage-manager in the wing.
1876 H. James in Atlantic Monthly Dec. The author has given him a mother who..has been kept waiting in the wing, as it were, for many acts.
1885 M. Collins Prettiest Woman in Warsaw I. i. 16 She had known her maintain that cold sternness to the very wings, and then bound on to the stage.
1946 P. Bottome Lifeline iii. 39 We've Churchill waiting in the wings, to take the helm when the storm breaks.
1963 V. Nabokov Gift iv. 237 Already famous, he remained as it were in the wings of his busy, talkative thought.
1977 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 3 Sept. 44/1 Despite vast expenditures on research and development..the videodisc is still hovering diffidently in the wings.
1985 Times 19 Jan. 21/1 Yesterday's huge jump in the share price suggests there is a buyer in the wings.
10. Anatomy. A lateral part or projection (usually, one of a pair) of some organ or structure; e.g. each of the lateral cartilages of the nose, a lateral process of a bone (esp. of the sphenoid): = ala n.1 1.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun] > wing
wing1650
ala1784
alation1860
the world > life > the body > structural parts > cartilage > cartilage of specific parts > [noun] > of nose
ala1634
wing1650
pinna1668
pterygium1684
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis vii. 79 That beauty which so manifestly appears in the wings of the Nose.
1663 R. Bayfield Τῆς Ἰατρικῆς Κάρτος 100 The Haw, nail, or little wing (as they term it) of the eye.
1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 231 Pinna Auris is the upper and broader part of the Ear, called the Wing.
1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. vii. 32 The Wing of the right Nostril.
1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 289 The great wing of the sphenoid bone.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 570 When one wing [of the diaphragm] is much raised, as by a collection of gas.
11. Botany.
a. The axil of a leaf: = ala n.1 2a. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [noun] > axil or part where leaf meets stem
navel?c1450
armpit1601
wing1763
navel-knot1766
axil1791
axilla1830
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 402 The flowers..are produced.. from the wings of the leaves.
b. Each of the lateral divisions or leaflets of a pinnate leaf. (Cf winged adj.1 3a). Obsolete.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leaflet
lacinia1668
label1672
pinna1703
label1707
pinnula1707
ala1712
lobe1731
pinnule1751
lobe-leaf1758
leafit1761
little leaf1775
wing1776
foliole1785
leaflet1811
lobelet1850
auricle1861
lobule1880
pinnulet1881
pointrel1881
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants 651 Fern. Filix mas... Leaves doubly winged; wings blunt.
c. Each of the two lateral petals of a papilionaceous flower: = ala n.1 2c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > petal > of particular shape or position
keel1597
vexillum1703
standard1725
ala1731
wing1776
banner1785
vexil1813
winglet1855
keel-petal1876
pterygium1896
1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Gloss. Ala, a Wing, the Side Petals of a papilionaceous Blossom, or a Membrane added to a Seed, Stalk, &c.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 307 Wings are 2 equal petals.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 85 Genista..Wings oblong.
d. A thin membranous appendage of a seed or fruit, serving for its dispersal by the wind; a thin lateral projection extending along a stem; any thin appendage, as on some part of a flower. (Cf. winged adj.1 3b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > parts of specific shape
finger?a1425
saucer1578
umbrella1658
neck1673
discus1687
cord1776
wing1776
starlet1787
ribbon1854
rat-tail1871
peltation1881
rod1884
1776 [see sense 11b].
1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. Families of Plants I. 183 Fruit egg'd, encompass'd with a wing striated on both sides.
1911 W. S. Furneaux Field & Woodl. Plants iii. 37 In the Narrow-leaved Everlasting Pea..the ‘wings’ of the stem and petioles.
12. Physics. A part of a spectral line where the intensity tails off to nothing at either side of it.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > decomposition of light, spectrum > [noun] > spectral line > part of
wing1959
1959 Canad. Jrnl. Physics 37 1252 (caption) Graph illustrating the dispersion line form for the high-frequency wing of the S(1) line of normal hydrogen at 85° K.
1982 Sci. Amer. July 77/3 At positions in the cloud other than the position of the infrared source the broad velocity wings disappeared and the lines had the narrow widths we had originally expected.

Phrases

P1. With prepositions.
a. in (the) wing.
(a) in wing of: in course or process of, engaged in. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupied or busy [phrase] > in some pursuit
in wing of?1482
up to ——1837
?1482 J. Kay tr. G. Caoursin Siege of Rhodes Whenne thay were in wyng of these werkys [L. Dum haec..agerentur].
(b) in the wing of: ? in the overshadowing presence of. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > presence > present [phrase] > in or into a person's presence
in (also into, intil, to) present?c1225
in one's (or the) visage1430
under a person's nosea1450
in the face of1482
in the wing of1579
before one's nosec1604
to one's nosea1616
1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 39v Our owne Newtralisme and Lukwarmenes shall in the wyng of Gods sonne vtterly condemne vs.
b. on (also upon) the wing or †one's wing, †on wing; also a-wing adv.
(a) literal. Flying, in flight.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > moving in air [phrase] > flying
on (also upon) the wing or one's wing1486
1486 Bk. St. Albans d j b When she is on wyng and comyth low bi the grounde.
a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqq2/1 The roiall Eagle When she hath tri'd her young ones gainst the Sun,..next teacheth 'em to prey, How to command on wing.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 332 They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung Upon the wing . View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 345 So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the Cope of Hell. View more context for this quotation
1748 T. Gray Ode in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems II. 266 The insect youth are on the wing.
1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 137 It is seldom that one of these birds is on wing..without uttering its cry.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iv. 301 The old birds were too strong on the wing for our young marksmen.
1859 E. FitzGerald tr. Rubáiyát Omar Khayyám vii. 2 The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
1882 J. S. Blackie Lett. to Wife (1909) 299 I have been as happy as a bird on the wing.
(b) figurative.
(i) Moving or travelling swiftly or briskly; astir, active, on the move.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase]
on fastec1275
as greyhound (let out) of leasha1300
a good (also great, etc.) shake13..
in hastec1300
(wiþ) gret yre13..
in speeda1325
good speeda1400
on (also upon) the wing or one's wing1508
with post1569
on or upon the speed1632
on the run?1679
by the run1787
like a house on fire (also afire)1809
at the double-quick1834
with a run1834
fast and furious1851
at the double1860
at the rate of knots1892
for (or on) the (high) jump1905
like blue murder1914
1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 178 Throw Scotland, Ingland, France and Lumbardy Fleys on weyng thi fame and thi renoune.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 133 When I had seene this hote loue on the wing . View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqq2/2 'Tis time his fortune be a wing [v.rr. o' wing, o' th' wing], high time sir.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman To Rdr. sig. B3v So long as we can keep sound Doctrine on wing, we shall hope to kill..all three [evils].
1655 Ld. Norwich Let. 30 Nov. in E. Nicholas Papers (1897) III. 217 With what impatience his good subiects..expect to heare yt his Maty were uppon his wing.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. xiii. 92 The prince, whose thoughts were always on the wing.
1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. iii Nobody is on the wing; hardly a single traveller.
1871 Mrs. H. Wood Dene Hollow III. xi. 197 Captain..Clanwaring was on the wing early.
(ii) ‘Taking flight’, going off or away, starting, departing; ready to start or depart.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [phrase] > ready to depart
on (also upon) the wing or one's wing1622
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. To Rdr. **2 Hauing beene too prodigall in communicating my papers,..they caught me when I was vpon my wings.
1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love i. 4 Look you, they are on the wing already.
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe iv. 55 He's wild, and soon on wing, if watchful eyes come near.
1722 A. Pope Corr. 8 Feb. (1956) II. 102 When I went last to town, and was on wing for the Deanery.
1861 Mrs. H. Wood East Lynne III. iii. xx. 247 She fell on her knees..in prayer for the departing spirit, on its wing.
1898 Punch 20 Aug. 81/2 The Courts are up, and the members of the four Inns are supposed to be on the wing.
c. on wings: (going) with light steps as one in a joyously exalted mood.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [adverb]
gladlyc900
hightlyOE
blithelyc1000
merryOE
joyfullyc1330
gamelya1375
glada1400
merrilyc1400
joyinglyc1430
gladfully?c1450
joyously1474
deliciously1481
gladsomely1487
mirthfully1508
delightfully?1567
delightingly1602
delightedly1654
on wings1859
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [phrase] > with light steps
on wings1859
1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. v. 60 Now the young gentleman was off and out every night, and seemed to be on wings.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth vi They sealed the promise with a long loving kiss, and Gerard went home on wings.
d. on the wings of…: see sense 2b.
e. under (..) wing.
(a) under the wing of, under ——'s wing (wings): under the protection, care, or patronage of. (Cf. sense 3b.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > having care or custody (of) [phrase] > in the care or custody of
under a person's hand (also hands)OE
under the wing ofc1230
in fang witha1400
in yemea1400
among the hands ofa1533
in charge (of)1548
under the umbrage of1677
c1230 Hali Meid. (1922) 66 Ȝef þu wel wrist te under godes wengen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17638 I blisce þe, lauerd, þou me has gett And sauf vnder þi wenges sett.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 1769 Turne þe, trechoure,..And drawe a-gayn to þi den vndire þi dam wingis [v.r. wengez].
1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 281/2 Such as abide and kepe theim self undre the wynge of your Mageste Roiall.
?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. cc.v And vnder the wynge of my proteccyon All rebels brought be to subieccyon.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Hiijv I haue euer be brought vp at home i. vnder my mothers wynge.
1669 H. More Expos. 7 Epist. Ep. Ded. sig. A 3v If I had not taken this opportunity..of doing that right to the Truth I here professe as to put it under the wings of so fit and able a Patron.
1765 S. Foote Commissary iii. 47 There liv'd Miss Cicely..under the wing of an old maiden aunt.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxi. 353 They fled for their lives to find safety under Pompey's wing in Capua.
(b) to keep one's bill under wing: to remain quiet or inactive (like a sleeping bird). Obsolete. rare.[Cf. quot. c1425 at sense 1a.]
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > be inactive [verb (intransitive)] > remain inactive
stillc1330
liec1374
stayc1540
to keep one's bill under wing1548
connive1667
to lie by1709
repose1817
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxiiij After this..the duke of Yorke..thought it mete neither lenger to dissimule, nor farther to kepe his bill vnder wyng.
(c) hit under the wing (slang): intoxicated.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1844 A. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. iv. 47 He being..‘hit under the wing’.
P2. With verbs. (For other phrases, as clip the wings, see the verbs.)
a. to hang the wing (cf. hang v. 4c): to hesitate, show timidity. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (intransitive)]
nillOE
loathea1200
to make it tough1297
forthinka1300
reckc1300
ruea1400
to make (it) strangec1405
to make strangenessc1407
stick1418
resistc1425
to make (it) strange?1456
steek1478
tarrowc1480
doubt1483
sunyie1488
to make (it) nice1530
stay1533
shentc1540
to make courtesy (at)1542
to make it scrupulous1548
to think (it) much1548
to make dainty of (anything)1555
to lie aback1560
stand1563
steek1573
to hang back1581
erch1584
to make doubt1586
to hang the groin1587
to make scruple (also a, no, etc., scruple)1589
yearn1597
to hang the winga1601
to make squeamish1611
smay1632
bogglea1638
to hang off1641
waver1643
reluct1648
shy1650
reluctate1655
stickle1656
scruple1660
to make boggle1667
revere1689
begrudge1690
to have scruples1719
stopc1738
bitch1777
reprobate1779
crane1823
disincline1885
the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > be timorous [verb (intransitive)] > hesitate or hang back through timidity
wondec897
arghc1175
scurnc1325
erch1584
to hang the winga1601
shirk1778
crane1823
a1601 T. North tr. Epaminondas in Plutarch Lives (1612) 1122 Afraid onely of the name and reputation of Epaminondas, and hanging the wing, as they say.
a1624 Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 40 If Saint Peter..had hanged the wing, as they speake, or let fall his Crest.
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.
c.
(a) to take to wing (to take to —— 1a at take v. Phrasal verbs 2): = sense 1b ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [verb (intransitive)] > fly
flusha1300
soarc1384
fly1480
flitter1483
flit1535
fleck1567
flirt1582
wagtail1606
waft1682
to take to wing1693
flaffer17..
to take (its, etc.) wing1807
skirl1859
1693 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xiv. 280 Soon as e're to Wing they take.
1870 N. F. Hele Aldeburgh vii. 84 It was within ten yards of me when it took to wing.
(b) to take (its, etc.) wing (take v. 68a).
(i) Of a bird, etc.: to take flight, begin flying.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [verb (intransitive)] > fly
flusha1300
soarc1384
fly1480
flitter1483
flit1535
fleck1567
flirt1582
wagtail1606
waft1682
to take to wing1693
flaffer17..
to take (its, etc.) wing1807
skirl1859
1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 136 He knew the Rocks which Angels haunt..; He hath kenn'd them taking wing.
1812 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 62 They will instantly take wing and give you a beautiful shot.
1890 C. Dixon Stray Feathers i. 6 The Ring Doves, startled at this, took wing.
(ii) figurative. To ‘take flight’, take one's departure, make off, flee.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > hastily or suddenly
fleec825
warpa1400
wringc1400
bolt1575
decamp1751
mog1770
to hop the twig1797
to take (its, etc.) wing1806
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
vamoose1834
fade1848
skedaddle1862
to beat it1906
blow1912
to hop it1914
beetle1919
bug1950
jet1951
1704 London Gaz. No. 4056/5 Success, like Fame, has taken Wing.
1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 24 The weary Soul..ready to leave the Carcase, and yet not suffer'd to take it's Wing.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iv. 67 I lately changed my lodgings... I took wing at a moment's warning.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 56 As he touched the lock, they took wing like a covey of partridges.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxvi. 59 I found a fellow who..knew this Mrs Glasher before she took wing.
d. to spread (also stretch, try) one's wings: to test or develop one's powers; to lead a life of wider scope than hitherto.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > try experiments or make experiment [verb (intransitive)] > try one's ability
to fond one's flightc1425
to spread (also stretch, try) one's wings1864
1864 G. Meredith Let. 1 June (1970) I. 260 One thought my Marie merely trying her wings.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxiv. 192 He is trying his wings. He is just the sort of young fellow to rise.
1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister III. xx. 332 When I found myself the son-in-law of a very rich man I thought I might spread my wings a bit.
1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism ii. 67 It was in an age of political anarchy that the forces destined to dominate the future tried their wings.
1953 ‘W. Cooper’ Ever-interesting Topic v. ii. 252 He decided to compose music as well as to play it: he began to try his wings as a creative artist, and he found they held him up.
1973 ‘P. Malloch’ Kickback xi. 69 ‘Hagan's stretching his wings a bit.’ ‘Beginning to feel his weight, is he?’
1978 S. Radley Death & Maiden xv. 145 She wanted to spread her wings a bit, meet new people.
P3. a wing and a prayer: a jocular form of reference (after quot. 1943) to an emergency landing by an aircraft; also figurative and as attributive.phr. in allusion to reliance on hope in desperate situations.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > [noun] > unfounded hope
forlorn hopea1643
wish-thinking1930
wishful thinking1932
a wing and a prayer1943
straw-clutching1962
hope-against-hope1968
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing > emergency
forced landing1917
a wing and a prayer1943
1943 H. Adamson Comin' in on a Wing & a Prayer (song) Tho' there's one motor gone, we can still carry on, Comin' In On A Wing And A Pray'r.
1967 Economist 3 June 998/2 The ITA's problem is to decide which applicants give most promise of maintaining an improvement over six years... This is largely a wing and a prayer decision.
1971 P. O'Donnell Impossible Virgin xii. 250 I reckoned it was better to get kitted up for a proper job rather than come charging down 'ere on a wing and a prayer.
1977 W. Marshall Thin Air xii. 150 The co-pilot brought it in... Wing and a prayer!
1980 T. Barling Goodbye Piccadilly xvi. 334 The pilot spoke to him... ‘This is real wing and a prayer weather.’

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive.
(a) In sense 1 (in reference to parts, structure, or function), as wing area, wing-beat, wing-bone, wing feather, wing flight, wing-length, wing membrane, wing neuration, wing patch, wing pattern, wing pinion, wing power, wing quill, wing ray, wing shoulder, wing-span, wing-spread, wing vein.
ΚΠ
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.
(b) In sense 5d; (of aeroplanes) wing-length, wing-skid, wing-span, wing-spread, wing-stay.
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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.
(c) In sense 6 or 9 (= side, lateral), as wing boiler, wing cabin, wing room, wing walk.
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a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives: Bacon (1898) I. 79 In the middle~most three coaches may passe abreast: in the wing-walkes two may.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 284/2 The furnaces in the wing boilers.
1877 L. Jewitt Half-hours among Eng. Antiq. 112 The sleeved surcoat; the ailettes or wing~pieces, behind the shoulders.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 291 Wing-bore..a side or flank bore-hole.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Aug. 2/1 The wing cabin at the foot of the companion.
1893 T. N. Page In Ole Virginia 194 The great chamber was given up to the baby, the Colonel going to the wing room.
1923 J. C. Rogers Eng. Furnit. 64 The back..fitted with forward wing-pieces.
(d) In sense 7, as wing adjutant, wing-back, wing commander, wing officer; in sense 7b, as wing forward, wing half, wing-man, wing player.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > officer in air force > wing commander
wing commander1734
Wingco1941
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > officer of wing
wing adjutant1734
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > players or positions
wing-back1734
goalkeeper1789
outfielder1855
quarter1857
centre fielder1865
outfield1867
quarterback1867
right1867
centre1868
left wing1871
left-back1873
left half-back1873
centre forward1874
left-centre1877
right-centre1877
centre back1878
centre half-back1879
forward1879
back1880
right wing1880
right half-back1881
goaltender1882
right-winger1882
wing1882
centre half1884
left winger1884
inside1886
half1887
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left half1888
midfielder1888
left wing1889
right half1889
centreman1890
midfield1890
outside right1890
outfieldsman1891
goalie1894
winger1896
infield1897
inside forward1897
inside right1897
outside forward1897
outside1898
outside left1900
rearguard1904
pivot1911
wing-man1942
keeper1957
link1958
linkman1963
midfield1976
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > armchair > wing
wing-back1734
wing chair1775
lug-chair1901
wing-back chair1933
1734 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Earl of Eglinton (1885) 192 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4575) XLIV. 1 I sent a pinnace and brought the Velt Marshall's Wing Adjutant to me.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 470/2 Wing Officer, an officer of the Indian army attached to a wing of a native infantry regiment.
1882 Cassell's Bk. Sports 40 Wing players should be good dribblers.
1898 J. Goodall Assoc. Football 30 The wing game—that is to say, the two pairs playing together, leaving the centre-forward waiting for something to turn up.
1898 J. Goodall Assoc. Football 78 Wing-halves should keep their eyes on the wing-forwards.
1914 Times 22 Dec. 4/3 Royal Flying Corps..Wing Commander.—Brev. Maj. H. R. M. Brooke-Popham, Oxf. and Bucks. L.I.
1918 W. T. Blake R.F.C. in War vii. 42 The Wing Head~quarters.
1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station iv. 75–6 Wing Commander (relative rank of Commander, R.N.) Squadron Commander (relative rank of Lieutenant Commander, R.N.) Flight Commander (relative rank of Lieutenant, R.N.).
1933 Time 13 Nov. 57/1 A wing~back is..a halfback who takes position about a yard and a half behind the line of scrimmage and about the same distance outside his own end.
1942 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Jan. 4/1 Baltimore scored first on a pass from Charley Ernst, center forward, to Harry McAdams, newly acquired wingman.
1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Sat. xxviii. 217 And a real wing-commander came in yesterday and talked to me.
1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. c1/3 The Buckeyes rushed for 359 yards as quarterback Cornelius Greene and wingback Brian Baschnagel each scored twice.
1976 Derbyshire Times 3 Sept. (Peak ed.) 26/1 Matlock, in contrast, always looked dangerous with Peter Scott, the Fenoughty brothers, Mick and Nick, and wing-man Colin Oxley constantly troubling the Runcorn defence with their speedy breaks.
(e) = having wings or side appendages ( 6, 8), as wing bonnet, wing cap, wing chair, wing gudgeon, wing-nut.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nut > wing-nut
wing-nut1775
fly-nut1825
butterfly nut1849
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > other
toque1505
biggin1511
button cap1527
undercap1531
biggin1558
fool's cap1577
apex1578
blue capa1586
wishing-cap1600
Wantage cap1609
infernal1610
porringer1623
montera1626
montera cap1652
school cap1736
wing cap1775
balloon1784
balloon-cap1785
spider-cap1790
poke-fly cap1810
strap-cap1820
mandarin cap1835
porringer-cap1839
chechia1853
turban1862
mitre1877
turban-cap1881
half-cap1893
pillbox cap1897
Queen Mary hat1928
snap-back1937
songkok1960
pakul1982
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > with side flaps
wing bonnet1775
gypsy bonnet1803
Gypsy1806
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > armchair > wing
wing-back1734
wing chair1775
lug-chair1901
wing-back chair1933
1775 F. Burney Jrnl. 28 Feb. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 70 She had on a large dirty wing Cap, made of muslin.
1817 M. Edgeworth Harrington & Ormond I. xiii. 316 Then at the top of the mount of hair and horsehair..there was sometimes a fly-cap, or a wing cap, or a pouf.
1883 Longman's Mag. July 259 The wing bonnet like the tilt of a waggon.
1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 121 Put a ¼ inch bolt with a wing thumb nut, through.
1907 G. O. Wheeler Old Eng. Furnit. 190 The ordinary English ‘wing’ or ‘grandfather’ chair.
1910 Chambers's Jrnl. May 349/1 The wing-nut on its shaft is released, the detachable rim-wheel placed on the shaft, and the nut replaced.
1971 Flying Apr. 26/2 The control and gust locks..are adjustable to fit virtually any light aircraft by means of easy-to-operate wing nuts.
b. Instrumental, adverbial, parasynthetic, etc.
wing-borne adj.
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1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wing-borne.
1942 S. Smith Mother, what is Man? 67 Than earth-born engine-borne, heaven-born wing-borne is better?
1977 Guardian Weekly 5 June 3/2 About half the crashes happened when the aircraft was hovering, or in transition from normal wingborne flight.
wing-broken adj.
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a1793 G. White Naturalist's Cal. (1795) 96 As a person was lately pursuing a pheasant that was wing~broken.
1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting iii. 71 Rather a cruel method, perhaps, but one attended with great success in wild-goose shooting, is, on securing a wing-broken one, to fasten it to a stake a short distance from the blind.
wing-clipped adj.
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1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Mar. 2/1 Some of the birds can fly,..but the wing-clipped ones..are..shot down.
wing-flapping adj.
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1915 E. Pound Cathay 10 He goes out to Hori, to look at the wing-flapping storks.
1953 N. Tinbergen Herring Gull's World xxi. 183 A screaming, wing-flapping tangle.
wing-hoofed adj.
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?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxiii. 377 Who th' extended night With-held in long date; nor would let the light Her wing-hoou'd horse ioyne.
wing-like adj.
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1795–1804 W. Blake Vala vi, in Compl. Writings (1972) 318 And the wing-like tent of the Universe, beautiful, surrounding all.
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) at Alaria ossa The wing-like processes of the sphenoid bone.
wing-limed adj.
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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 53 Why the wilde Fen-Goose..as wing-lym'd, cannot flie.
wing-shadowed adj.
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1938 D. Gascoyne Hölderlin's Madness 28 The bewildered words which try to tell The tale of his bright night And his wing-shadowed day.
wing-shaped adj.
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1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (1836) 598 Leaves..wing-shaped.
wing-shattered adj.
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1928 E. Blunden Retreat 60 But now the grey age passes by my faint senses And charm lies wing-shattered or dead.
wing-stiff adj.
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1945 P. Larkin North Ship 33 It was your severed image that grew sweeter, That floated, wing-stiff, focussed in the sun.
wing-weary adj.
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1868 J. G. Whittier in Atlantic Monthly Jan. 1 The sky is hot and hazy, and the wind, Wing-weary with its long flight from the south.
1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure x. 154 The woodcock come in wing-weary from their North Sea voyagings.
wing-wide adj.
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1818 J. Keats Walking in Scotl. 19 Eagles may seem to sleep wing-wide upon the air.
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wing-and-wing adj. Nautical (of a ship) sailing directly before the wind, with the foresail hauled over on one side and the mainsail on the other.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adjective] > goose-winged
wing-laid1632
wing-and-winga1819
goose-winged1866
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adverb] > goose-winged
wing-and-winga1819
a1819 J. Greenwood Revolutionary Services (1922) vi. 82 We were now wing and wing, that is, right before the wind.
1828 J. F. Cooper Red Rover I. iii. 84 That..schooner would make more way going wing-and-wing than jammed up on a wind.
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 135.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 4 We greet the clippers wing-and-wing that race the Southern wool.
wing-back chair n. = wing chair at Compounds 1a(e); also elliptical.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > armchair > wing
wing-back1734
wing chair1775
lug-chair1901
wing-back chair1933
1933 J. Steinbeck To God Unknown i. 1 The wing-back chair by the fireplace.
1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xlvi. 247 She sat in her wingback chair flicking through one of the coffee table books.
1977 Chicago Tribune Mag. 2 Oct. 9/1 (advt.) The chair that stands still in time—the Classic Wingback with Chippendale legs.
wing-band n. = wing-bar n. (b).
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > wing or wings > marking on
beauty spot1804
wing-bar1844
speculum1847
wing-band1872
mirror1903
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 101 Wing-bands generally fused into one large patch.
wing-bar n. (a) a lateral bar in a scuffling-plough; (b) a bar or band of colour on the feathers of a bird's wing, spec. one formed by distinctive coloration of the greater or median coverts or both; (c) in an aeroplane: see quot. 1910.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > wing or wings > marking on
beauty spot1804
wing-bar1844
speculum1847
wing-band1872
mirror1903
the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > other parts of plough
plough-line1384
plough-strake1395
cleat1419
weigh-tree1578
spindle1616
pole wedge1733
table1763
throat1771
brace1808
wang1808
wing-bar1844
sill1877
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > structural framework > specific supporting wings
wing-bar1844
spar1866
rib1889
pylon1912
cabane1913
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 959 The ends of the wing-bars having a mortise formed to receive the quadrant, are moved upon this to any required width.
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 348/2 They are light blue on the coloured parts and have no wing bars.
1910 R. Ferris How it Flies 474 Wing Bar, the larger construction members of a wing, running from the body outward to the tips. The ribs are attached to the wing bars, usually at right angles.
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wing-bay n. a marking on a bird's wing formed by distinctive coloration of the secondaries, in certain game-cocks characteristically of a bay colour.
wing-bow n. a marking on the shoulder or bend of the wing formed by distinctive coloration of the lesser coverts.
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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > marking on wing
wing-bow1867
1867 W. B. Tegetmeier Poultry Bk. 338 Wing Bow.—Rich dark red.
wing-bud n. in insect larvæ, a histoblast from which the wings develop.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > parts of > wing-bud
wing-bud1917
1917 R. J. Tillyard Biol. Dragonflies iii. 47 The wing-bud is simply an ectodermal evagination, in the form of a small bag lined internally with hydoderm cells, and externally with the cuticle.
1969 R. F. Chapman Insects xxi. 407 A progressive development of the wing buds occurs at each moult.
wing-case n. each of the structures (modified fore-wings) which cover the functional wings in certain insects, as the elytra of beetles and the tegmina of Orthoptera.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > wings(s) > wing-cover(s)
wing-case1661
wing-shell1681
wing-cover1816
tegmen1817
wing-sheath1855
tegumen1882
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. C2v Some [Insects] have wing-cases, as beetles, and cantharides.
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 2) I. iii. 64 It would..have emerged an elegant beetle, furnished with..two wings, and two wing-cases, ornamented with yellow bands.
wing-chick n. a young chicken still under the protection of its mother's wing.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) > young or chicken
chickenOE
chicka1398
poulta1425
chicken birdc1450
peepera1586
peepling1594
game chicken1674
peep1688
spring chicken1765
clucker1779
chickabiddy1785
chicklet1836
chickie1851
wing-chick1885
pee-pee1890
1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. xiii. 325 A young poet..is not the same kind of wing-chick as a young actress.
wing-clap n. and v. (intransitive) .
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the world > animals > birds > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound
to sing awk1600
warble1605
snapper1664
flute1800
note1906
wing-clap1964
the world > animals > birds > [noun] > making sound > sound produced
wing-clap1964
1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 631/2 More rattling or clattering wing-claps may be made by pigeons suddenly taking wing when alarmed.
1976 Country Life 18 Mar. 672/2 The long-eared owl will wing-clap during its spring nuptial flight.
wing-clapping n. the production of a noise by a bird slapping its wings against its body.
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the world > animals > birds > [noun] > making sound
wing-clapping1941
1941 H. F. Witherby et al. Handbk. Brit. Birds IV. 142 Performance [of display-flight by turtle-dove] may be accompanied by wing-clapping.
1976 Country Life 18 Mar. 672/2 The mechanical production of snaps from the beak may be compared with wing-clapping by birds.
wing-cleft adj. Botany Obsolete = pinnatifid adj. (cf. 11b).
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > compound or lobed
cut1565
winged1668
pinnate1687
conjugated1690
trifoliated1698
auriculated1712
auriculate1714
pennate1723
pinnated1725
pennated1727
bigeminate1753
lyrated1753
pedated1753
pinnatifid1753
supradecomposite1753
supradecompound1753
ternated1753
trifoliate1753
lyrate1760
pedate1760
quinate1760
ternate1760
tripinnate1760
palmed1767
bilobated1770
lyre-shaped1778
pennatifid1778
finger-parted1783
superdecompound1783
bipinnate1785
biternate1785
conjugate1785
lobed1787
tergeminate1793
wing-cleft1796
yoked?1803
binate1807
septenate1807
trijugous1813
auricled1821
pinniform1821
multijugous1828
pinnulate1828
trifoliolate1828
bipinnatifid1830
multifoliolate1831
multijugate1831
quinquefoliolate1832
bifoliolate1835
pinnatisected1837
palmatifid1839
tripinnatifid1839
foliate1840
palmatipartite1840
pinnatilobate1840
pinnatipartite1840
pinnatisect1840
bipinnated1842
biconjugate1847
imparipinnate1847
paripinnate1851
pinnatulate1855
polytomous1856
multifoliate1857
pennati-partite1857
pennati-sected1857
ternato-pinnate1857
tripinnatisect1857
patentoternate1859
septemfoliate1859
bipinnatipartite1861
bipinnatisected1861
bipalmate1864
pinnatilobed1866
septenous1866
cut-leaved1870
lobing1870
ternatisect1870
tripinnated1876
trijugate1880
jugate1887
pinnulated1890
trisect1899
tridigitate1900
trigeminous1900
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 294 Leaves winged; leafits wing-cleft.
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 120 More properly twice wing-cleft than twice pinnate.
wing collar n. a high stiff shirt collar with the upper corners turned down.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > part of > collar > types of
wing-poke1905
wing collar1911
tab collar1928
1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 190/1 Wing-collars, brown shoes, and obtrusive socks..would destroy the prevailing scheme of colouring.
1975 Times 19 May 12/7 Saturday's guide was Charles E. Lee, a transport historian whose wing collar..enhanced the building's period atmosphere.
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wing-compass n. a compass having one leg fitted with an arc-shaped ‘wing’ or projecting piece which passes through the other leg and may be clamped in any required position (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
wing-cover n. = wing-case n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > wings(s) > wing-cover(s)
wing-case1661
wing-shell1681
wing-cover1816
tegmen1817
wing-sheath1855
tegumen1882
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxiii. 350 In the next order (Orthoptera), the Tegmina, or wing-covers..assist them in flying.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 500 The fore wings may be converted into wing covers for the hind wings.
wing-covert n. [covert n. 5] any one of the small feathers overlying the flight-feathers of a bird's wing.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > wing or wings > feather(s) on > other types of
wing-covert1815
under-covert1817
contour feather1867
tectrix1874
marginal1887
predigital1887
1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 3 Greater wing-coverts tipped with crimson.
wing-dam n. a dam or barrier built into a stream to deflect the current.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [noun] > structures to divert river current
scour17..
wing-dam1809
spur1818
training wall1852
training bank1855
training post1884
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [adjective] > relating to wingdam
wing-dam1809
1809 T. G. Fessenden Pills 36 All his rhetorick was directed towards election district, and wingdam bills, and seconding motions.
1863 V. Pyke in App. Jrnls. House of Representatives N.Z. (3rd Sess. 3rd Parl.) D.–6. 18 Many..who held river claims worked very successfully by wing dams, consisting of bags of sand laid into the stream, so as to cut off a portion of its bed, which, being drained by pumping, was paddocked out and passed through the cradle.
1882 Rep. Prec. Metals U.S. 102 By sinking a shaft and drifting preparatory to building a wing-dam.
wing-dam v. (transitive) to furnish with a wing-dam.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with a wingdam
wing-dam1857
1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. xvii. 265 A company of fifteen or twenty white men would have wing-dammed this claim.
wing-deck n. = sense 9b(b).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > side decks of paddle steamer
sponson1835
wing1846
wing-deck1889
1889 Cent. Mag. July 374/1 (Steamboat Decoration) More of this glass gives a desirable touch of color in the lights above the wing-decks at each end.
wing-elm n. = winged elm n. at winged adj.1 3c.
wing-fashion adj. and adv. Obsolete in the form of wings.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [adjective] > sleeve
wing-fashion1547
pocketing1614
raglan1858
poufed1874
manche1876
pouf1906
bat-wing1961
1547 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 14 vij peyre of Sleves wyng ffasshion.
wing-fish n. (a) = Pterichthys n.; (b) a flying-fish, esp. of the genus Prionotus.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Exocoetidae (flying fish)
flying fish?c1510
rearmouse1598
sea-swallow1598
sea-kite1601
swallow-fish1601
sea-bat1611
swallow1668
sea-hawka1717
wing-fish1855
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > member of Dactylopteridae (flying gurnards)
flying fish?c1510
sea-swallow1598
sea-kite1601
swallow-fish1601
sea-bat1611
swallow1668
sea-hawka1717
batfish1848
wing-fish1855
flying gurnard1882
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Scorpaenidae (scorpion-fishes) > genus or member of Pterichthys (fossil)
Pterichthys1841
wing-fish1855
pterichthyid1863
1855 D. T. Ansted in Orr's Circle Sci.: Inorg. Nature 80 The Pterichthys (wing-fish).
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 304 [Fishes of the genus Prionotus] are eaten..only in the vicinity of Hartford, Conn., where they are known as ‘Wing-fish’.
wing-flap n. see flap n. 5e.
wing flutter n. Aeronautics flutter (flutter n. 1d) of an aircraft wing.
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [adjective] > types of oscillation
phugoid1908
wing flutter1927
society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [noun] > oscillation > flutter
flutter1911
wing flutter1927
1927 Daily Tel. 21 Jan. 10/7 The new theory..suggests that wing-flutter may be more common than has been supposed.
1982 C. L. Ruhlin et al. Transonic Flutter Study of Wind-tunnel Model (NASA Rep. 82-23239) viii. 5/2 Most of the winglet effect on the wing flutter speed was due to the winglet mass, not aerodynamics.
wing-footed adj. having winged feet, swiftly-moving; also figurative.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective]
swiftc888
swifta1050
currentc1300
quickc1300
hastivea1325
hastyc1330
ingnel1340
swiftyc1380
speedfula1387
fasta1400
swippingc1420
speedy1487
fleet1528
tite?a1540
scudding1545
flighty1552
suddenly1556
flight1581
feathered1587
Pegasean1590
wing-footed1591
swift-winged?1592
thought-swift-flying1595
wind-winged?1596
swallow-winged1597
Pegasarian1607
skelping1607
rapid1608
night-swifta1616
celerious1632
clipping1635
perniciousa1656
volatile1655
quick-foot1658
meteorous1667
windy1697
high-flying1710
fleet-footed1726
aliped1727
wickc1760
velocious1775
flight-performing1785
fast-going1800
fast-moving1802
meteor1803
wight-wapping1830
fleety1841
speeding1847
swiftening1848
two-forty1855
fire-swift1865
pennate1870
spinning1882
percursory1884
zippy1889
meteoric1895
pacy1906
presto1952
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [adjective] > having wings > having winged feet
wing-footed1591
wingy-heeled1596
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 666 Wing footed Mercurie.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion x. 164 Wing-footed Time.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 923 Hail the daughters of the wing-footed steed.
1977 Time 22 Aug. 13/1 Wing-footed United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young has been exploring the politically and economically troubled waters of the Caribbean, and soon will attend an anti-apartheid conference in Lagos, Nigeria.
wing formula n. (see quot. 1964).
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the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [noun] > birds > statement of length of wing-feathers
wing formula1936
1936 Brit. Birds XXX. 226 This specimen..has..a wing formula as follows.
1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 892/2 Wing formula: a statement of, mainly, the relative lengths of the primary feathers.
wing-game n. game-birds collectively, as distinguished from ground-game (ground n. Compounds 2).
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the world > animals > birds > wild or domestic birds > [noun] > game-bird > collective
fowls of warren1539
feathera1616
fowl1646
wing-game1879
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life vii. 135 The neighbouring squire takes the pick of the wing-game.
wing-laid adj. Obsolete ? = wing-and-wing adj. at Compounds 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adjective] > goose-winged
wing-laid1632
wing-and-winga1819
goose-winged1866
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 502 The wing-layd Galley, with her factious oares.
wing-leaved adj. Botany Obsolete having pinnate leaves (cf. 11b).
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having leaves of particular shape or size
broad-leaved1552
long-leaved1562
narrow-leaved1578
round-leaved1597
small-leaved1597
long-leafed1629
rosemary-leaved1633
rue-leaved1633
teretifolious1657
cut-leaved1731
longleaf1733
channel-leaved1758
halberd-shaped1770
alder-leaved1772
oak-leaved1776
holly-leaved1777
ivy-leaved1789
halberd-headed1795
daisy-leaved1796
narrow-leaf1804
oblique-leaved1807
sword-leaved1807
wing-leaved1822
flaggy1842
curly1845
macrophyllous1857
parvifolious1857
shield-leaved1860
curled1861
symphyllous1877
beak-leaved188.
stenophyllous1880
thread-leaved1884
megaphyllous1901
little leaf1908
ivy-leaf1909
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 119 Wing-leaved Fig Wort, or Dog's Rue.
wing loading n. Aeronautics the gross weight of an aircraft divided by the total wing area; (in quot. 1912 perhaps used differently); cf. power loading n. 2.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > qualities and parameters of aircraft > [noun] > ratio of weight to span or area of wing
wing loading1912
loading1918
span loading1929
1912 Q. Rev. July 246 A range of this amount is obtained entirely by proportioning the position of masses, the wing-curve and the wing-loading.
1916 A. W. Judge Design of Aeroplanes iii. 29 In current practice the wing loading expressed in pounds per square foot for biplanes is about 0.005V2,..where V is the maximum designed speed in feet per second.
1972 Times 19 May 17/4 It cannot be a glider, as it has far too high a wing-loading.
wing-man n. the pilot of an aircraft which is positioned behind and to one side of the leading aircraft, as in formation for combat; the aircraft itself.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > airman > [noun] > in specific position in formation
wing-man1946
society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > group or unit on operation > [noun] > formation > aircraft in specific position
wing-man1946
society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > person in control of aircraft or spacecraft > person in control of aircraft > air force pilot > flying in specific position
tail-end Charlie1941
pathfinder1943
wing-man1946
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > [noun] > an aircraft > a group of aircraft > disposition in flight > aircraft in specific position
tail-end Charlie1941
wing-man1946
1946 Sat. Evening Post 6 Nov. 86/2 I looked to both sides of us. Our two wing men were gone.
1981 S. Dunmore Ace i. i. 15 We will fly together... You will be my wingman..to protect my rear end.
1982 Daily Tel. 25 May 1/4 He hit two Mirages with Sidewinder missiles while his wingman hit the third in the formation.
wing mirror n. (a) a side mirror (frequently adjustable) on a dressing table; (b) a rear-view mirror projecting from the side of a motor vehicle.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > looking-glass
looking-glass1526
Venice glass1527
tooting-glassc1560
seeing-glass1565
girdle-glassa1652
Venice looking-glass1655
considering-glass1660
peeper1673
long glass1680
table glass1688
dressing glass1697
keeking-glassa1724
toilet glass1729
long mirror1793
swing-glass1809
hand glass1832
cheval-glass1836
psyche1838
tire-glass1844
tiring-glass1844
driving mirror1907
wing mirror1925
swing mirror1930
vanity mirror1959
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > rear-view mirror
driving mirror1907
rear view1911
wing mirror1925
1925–6 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 311/2 Dressing table..triple mirrors, centre one beveled..two plain wing mirrors.
1948 Motor 3 Nov. 396/3 An assortment of wing mirrors.
1959 C. Williams Man in Motion vi. 62 The dressing-table with its wing mirrors.
1959 Motor Man. (ed. 36) viii. 217 Additional wing mirrors are..very useful, particularly on the off-side as traffic on the point of overtaking is then clearly visible.
1981 M. Nabb Death of Englishman iii. i. 143 He..had banged his head on a Carabiniere car wing-mirror.
wing-net n. (a) a ‘wing’ in a fishing net (= 6d), or a fishing net with wings; (b) a net at the side of a tennis court.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other nets
Peter netc1280
flue1388
wade1388
stalker1389
shove-net1418
trod-net1523
butt1533
web1533
fagnet1558
seur1558
trimnet1558
trollnet1558
pot-net1584
treat net1584
weir-net1585
hagan1630
henbilt1630
rugnet1630
basket-net1652
landing-net1653
stream-net1662
wolf1725
ram's horn1792
gill net1795
wolf-net1819
trap-net1856
forewheel1861
stow-net1871
lave net1875
kettle-bail1881
beating-net1883
keeve-net1883
net basin1883
wing-neta1884
trap-seine1891
lead-net1910
ghost net1959
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > court > parts of
hazard1583
nicka1672
penthousea1672
gallery1699
grille1700
dedans1706
tambour1706
gallery-post1878
pass court1878
pass line1878
winning-gallery1878
winning opening1878
wing-neta1884
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 850/2 At from 30′ to 40′ down stream another row of stakes is set, each opposite a stake in the bar-net, and between these stakes a wing-net is stretched.
1884 Marshall's Tennis Cuts 96 A gentleman,..in a fit of passion at some coup manqué, flung his racket high in air, and it lodged on the ledge above the tambour, behind the wing-net.
wing-over n. of an aircraft or hang-glider (see quot. 1959).
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > aerobatics > [noun] > stunt > specific
loop1900
looping1914
barrel roll1917
falling leaf1917
renversement1918
vrille1918
slow roll1923
slow-rolling1923
aileron roll1924
flick roll1928
wing-over1928
lazy eight1930
bunt1932
aileron turn1942
victory roll1942
rollover1945
twinkle roll1962
rollback1978
1928 Morning Post 20 Oct. 9/3 One of the passengers..got panicky when the pilot executed a ‘wing-over’.
1959 F. D. Adams Aeronaut. Dict. 183/2 Wing-over, noun, an airplane maneuver in which the airplane makes a steep zooming climb then banks and turns in the vertical plane into a dive or glide from which the recovery is made at approximately the original altitude and in a direction opposite to the original direction.
1978 A. Welch Bk. of Airsports i. 9/2 They indulge in ‘show-off’ flying—fast dives and steep wing-overs—that the simple hang glider was never designed to take.
wing-passage n. a passage along the side of a ship's hold: see 9b(a); also attributive.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > hold > passage along the side of
wing-passage1869
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding vi. 101 The wing passages of wooden ships of war.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 364/1 The ‘wing-passage-bulkhead’ as a protection against under-water attacks such as ramming or torpedoes.
wing-poke n. (also wing-poke collar) = wing collar n. above.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > part of > collar > types of
wing-poke1905
wing collar1911
tab collar1928
1905 H. G. Wells Kipps iii. i. 351 Kipps wears a grey suit, with a wing poke collar.
1910 H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly i. 13 His collar was chosen from stock, and with projecting corners, technically a ‘wing-poke’.
wing-post n. [post n.3 2.] Obsolete a carrier pigeon.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > person or vehicle that carries letters or mail > [noun] > carrier pigeon
carrier pigeon1644
wing-posta1661
postman pigeon1901
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northampt. 279 Such practices, by these Wing-posts, would spoil many a Foot-post.
wing-rail n. = guard-rail n. 2 (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875).
wing rib n. the end rib of a loin of beef.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > other cuts or parts
tild1342
ox foota1398
oxtaila1425
neat's foot?c1450
beef-flick1462
sticking piece1469
ox-tonguea1475
aitch-bone1486
fore-crop?1523
sirloin1525
mouse-piece1530
ox-cheek1592
neat's tongue1600
clod1601
sticking place1601
skink1631
neck beef1640
round1660
ox-heart1677
runner1688
sticking draught1688
brisket-beef1697
griskin1699
sey1719
chuck1723
shin1736
gravy beef1747
baron of beef1755
prime rib1759
rump and dozen1778
mouse buttock1818
slifta1825
nine holes1825
spauld-piece1828
trembling-piece1833
shoulder-lyar1844
butt1845
plate1854
plate-rand1854
undercut1859
silver-side1861
bed1864
wing rib1883
roll1884
strip-loin1884
hind1892
topside1896
rib-eye1926
buttock meat1966
onglet1982
1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife iv. 48 A seven or eight pound piece of wing rib or sirloin of beef.
wing root n. Aeronautics the part of a wing where it is attached to the fuselage.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > part next to fuselage
wing root1906
stub wing1931
1906 A. Samuelson Flight-velocity i. 12 Near the wing root an outrigger or boom..is fastened.
1966 M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxvi. 195 I jumped down off the wing root..and started to think about search parties.
wing-sail n. ? a sail abaft the main course.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > other sails
fuk1465
tilt-sail1620
wing-sail1794
umbrella sail1900
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 135 Wingsail for Ketches. This sail is quadrilateral, and similar to the mizen-course of a ship. It..bends abaft the mainmast to hoops which encircle the mast.
wing-sheath n. = wing-case n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > wings(s) > wing-cover(s)
wing-case1661
wing-shell1681
wing-cover1816
tegmen1817
wing-sheath1855
tegumen1882
1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 261 The elytra or wing-sheaths are long.
wing-shell n. (a) the wing-sheath of an insect; (b) any of several kinds of molluscs having the shell or some part of it resembling a wing, as the genus Pinna (= sea-wing n. 2); also, a wing-snail.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > wings(s) > wing-cover(s)
wing-case1661
wing-shell1681
wing-cover1816
tegmen1817
wing-sheath1855
tegumen1882
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > class Pteropoda > member of
sea-wing1681
pteropod1833
wing-shell1835
butterfly snail1876
pteropodan1890
sea butterfly1909
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §vii. ii. 164 The Wing-shells almost square~knobed on each side before.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §vii. ii. 164 The Long-Shell'd Goat-Chafer..is above an inch long, and the Wing-shells of them~selves an inch.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. viii. 252 The wing-shell belonging to the unimuscular section.
1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 260 The wing-shells, or pearl-oysters.
wing-shooting n. the practice of shooting birds ‘on the wing’, i.e. when flying.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting at flying birds
shooting flying1727
flight-shooting1840
wing-shot1875
wing-shooting1881
flighting1882
flight-shot1887
stopping1902
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 58 These guns..were probably intended for wing-shooting.
wing-shot n. and adj. (a) n. a shot aimed at a flying bird; (b) n. a person skilled in wing-shooting; (c) adj. shot while flying, or in the wing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting at flying birds
shooting flying1727
flight-shooting1840
wing-shot1875
wing-shooting1881
flighting1882
flight-shot1887
stopping1902
the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [adjective] > shot on or in wing
winged1789
wing-shot1875
the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > shooting at flying birds > shot while flying
wing-shot1875
the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooter > [noun] > shooter of flying birds
flight-shooter1859
wing-shot1875
1875 Fur, Fin & Feather 118 Bogardus, champion wing-shot of America, uses Orange Lightning [powder] for trap-shooting.
1878 C. Hallock Amer. Club List & Sportsman's Gloss. p. xii Wing-shot, a., hit in the wing. Wing-shot, n., a shot at birds on the wing; one who shoots at birds while flying.
1883 Cent. Mag. Aug. 493/2 Last season, I shot with the best wing-shot I ever hunted with.
1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 253 The contest for the American Field Champion Wing-Shot Cup.
1895 G. J. Manson Sporting Dict. Wing-shot,..hit on the wing.
wing-snail n. = pteropod n.
wing-stopper n. [stopper n. 9] a cable-stopper formerly used in the wings of a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > lashings, seizings, or securing ropes > securing anchor at ship's side
painter1336
shank-painter1495
wing-stopper1794
cat-head stopper1830
ring-stopper1834
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 176 Dog-stoppers are used as additional securities..to ease the deck-stoppers. Wing-stoppers are used for the same purpose.
wing-tag v. (transitive) to attach a distinguishing marker to the wing of a bird.
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the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [verb (transitive)] > mark a bird as identification
ring1899
wing-tag1953
1953 P. M. Scott & J. M. M. Fisher Thousand Geese 215 Five of the young were wing-tagged.
1981 Animal Behaviour XXIX. 302/1 Three females and one male were wing-tagged.
wing-tip n. (a) the tip of the wing of a bird, bat, or insect; (b) the outer end of the ‘wing’ of an aeroplane; (c) chiefly U.S., applied attributively to shoes with a toecap having a backward extending point and curving sides, suggestive of the shape of a wing; also absol.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > wing > tip of wing
wing-tip1872
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > other
voideda1539
high-topped1582
low-cuta1600
upright1608
seven-league1707
spurred?1707
japanned1750
hen-skin1846
pegged1846
stogy1847
wing-tip1872
foxed1880
brogued1894
welted1895
orthopaedic1897
tackless1907
dazzle1931
Jesus1942
pebble-grained1943
unconstructed1973
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with specific shaped toes
duck-bill1834
wing-tip1872
razor toe1895
point shoe1910
winkle-picker1960
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > tip
wing-tip1872
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 175 The wing-tip projects only about ½ an inch beyond the secondaries.
1890 C. Darwin Descent of Man (ed. 2) ii. xi. 322 The female of Anthocharis cardamines does not possess the beautiful orange wing-tips of the male.
1909 Daily Chron. 2 Feb. 5/6 He..hesitated a second to see that the man at the wing tip was ready.
1928 World (N.Y.) 23 May 4/6 (advt.) Wing tip oxfords by Horsheim have unusually good style.
1971 Weekend World (Johannesburg) 9 May 14/5 (advt.) Walk tall in the elegant clean lines of a Bostonian wing-tip or genuine handsewn moccasin.
1976 ‘B. Shelby’ Great Pebble Affair 45 Get a pair of black wingtip shoes.
1980 M. Gordon Company of Women i. ii. 38 The hard, expensive shoes of John F. Kennedy, the shoe with pinholes in the leather, wing tips they were called.
wing-tipped adj. /-tɪpt/ (of a bird) having the tips of the wings clipped so as to prevent it from flying.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having wings > clipped
clip-winged1598
wing-tipped1850
1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 236 Being wing-tipped and unable to fly, he caught it and brought it home alive.
wing-transom n. the uppermost and longest of the transoms in the stern-frame of a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > deck or hold beams
transom1545
beam1627
wing-transom1711
stool1797
hold-beam1801
breast beam1805
skid beam1846
beak-head-beam1850
cat-beam1850
deck-beam1858
main-transom1867
spale1867
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 70 The Wing Transom to have a long arm'd Knee.
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) at Transoms The arms of the transoms, being gradually closer in proportion to their distance from the wing transom downwards.
wing-wader n. an Australian wading bird having a spur or claw on each wing.
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the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > unspecified > aquatic or shore
calmewec1430
dicken1579
gravell1618
gravelin1621
sea-woodcock1666
pilot bird1678
pink1694
Poor John1775
fraik1812
bay-snipe1856
wing-wader1867
bay-bird1889
1867 Pitt-Rivers Evol. Culture, Prim. Warfare i. (1906) 71 The wing-wader of Australia.
wing-wale n. (see quot. 1846).
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1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 370 The term wing is also applied to the projecting part of a steam-vessel's deck before and abaft each of the paddle-boxes; this is bounded by a thick plank called the sponsing-rim or wing-wale which extends from the extremity of the paddle-beam to the ship's side.
wing-walking n. acrobatic stunts performed on the wings of an aircraft which is airborne, as a public entertainment.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [noun] > performance on aircraft wing
wing-walking1927
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [adjective] > performance on aircraft wing
wing-walking1927
1927 C. A. Lindbergh ‘We’ i. 11 Exhibitions..in which I usually made a jump and did a little wing-walking.
1979 Sunset Apr. 3/3 Also awesome is a wing-walking act in which specially trained gymnasts do headstands and other maneuvers on the wings of a W.W. II Stearman biplane as it loops, rolls, and lands.
wing-wall n. a lateral wall forming a support to an abutment and to the adjacent earth.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a retaining wall
headwall1659
retaining wall1771
wing-wall1791
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > types of
mud walla1395
ground-wall1712
retaining wall1771
cob wall1790
wing-wall1791
honeycomb wall1850
toe wall1934
1791 Rep. Navigation Thames & Isis Estimate 5 Taking down the Side-Walls of Godstow Lock, re-building them, strengthening the Wing-Walls, and finishing, £450.
1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 95/1 Retaining walls were generally introduced at the ends of bridges, to connect the abutments of the bridge with the natural ground; but in these cases they were called ‘wing walls’.
wing-warping n. in early powered flight, the bending or twisting of a wing by means of an attached wire as a method of stabilizing the aeroplane or turning it.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > bending or twisting wing
wing-warping1910
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [adjective] > bending or twisting wing
wing-warping1910
1910 R. M. Neilson Aeroplane Patents 27, 6732 of March 19, 1904.—O. and W. Wright. This is the famous wing~warping patent.
1969 K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 7 Wing-warping was not, in itself, an invention of the Wrights; what was significant was their improvement of linking the warp-control cables with a single, hinged rudder.

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wing oyster n. any of various chiefly tropical and subtropical marine bivalve molluscs of the genus Pteria or family Pteriidae, which have a winglike extension to each valve producing an elongated straight hinge; (also) the shell of such a mollusc.
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1971 D. Nichols Oxf. Bk. Invertebr. 72/1 Pteria (Wing Oyster). The shell of this form has wing-like extensions of the valves which increase the length of the hinge-line.
1981 Washington Post 9 Aug. 7/1 Sticking to their sides were Atlantic wing oysters, camouflaged as cotton balls to escape the octopus.
2002 West Indian Jrnl. Marine Sci. 1 169 Other oyster species found during the survey were the wing oyster, Pteria penguin, occurring in deep channels in Shimoni and Mombasa.

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wingsuit n. a full-body garment having ‘wings’ formed by fabric between the arms and legs that inflates to give lift and enables the wearer to glide through the air when in free fall (typically landing with the aid of a parachute).
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1997 Business Wire (Nexis) 5 Dec. Patrick de Gayardon has pioneered a new form of sky diving through his Wing-Suit invention.
2005 Denver Post 13 Sept. d12 While still in design phases, the wingsuit is the latest aspiration from the modern-day Icarus.
2011 L. Hile Surviving Extreme Sports 44 People wearing the wingsuit soar through the air like flying squirrels.

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a bird cannot fly with one wing, you cannot fly with one wing, and variants.
a. Used proverbially to indicate the need for balance between two things, factors, elements, etc., esp. when one is required to ensure the effectiveness of the other.Originally in similative contexts.
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a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f.51 For euen as a hauke flieth not hie with one wing: euen so a man reacheth not to excellency with one tong.
1595 A. Fletcher Certaine Similies 39 Euen as a Bird doth not flie with one wing alone, but with twaine: So it is not enough, that we know much of the Lords worde and will, but we must do it also.
a1642 W. Crompton Justice of God Asserted 63 in Soveraign Omnipotency (1682) Moses came out of the Mount with both Tables in his Hands; the Second as well as the first. They must go both together... A Bird cannot Fly with one Wing.
1864 Standard 4 Aug. 3/3 The great Lord Bacon said that a bird cannot fly with one wing, and so it is true that the country cannot depend upon any one interest; and we must here depend upon the combined efforts of commerce and agriculture.
1883 Jrnl. Sci. May 295 Whoever..would deprive us of any one method [of research] seeks to cripple, if not to arrest, our progress... We cannot fly with one wing; we want both.
1995 Chron. Higher Educ. 14 July a40/3 Although those on the research track would get more time to focus on their scholarship, they also would be expected to teach competently; no academic can fly with one wing.
2007 J. Van Auken Toward Deeper Medit. 199 The wise meditator must remember that the bird cannot fly with only one wing. We have to have the right method and the right heart.
b. Chiefly U.S. and Irish English. Used (esp. humorously) to state that one alcoholic drink is not enough, typically as a justification when requesting, accepting, or offering another drink.
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1902 Evening Gaz. (Burlington, Iowa) 13 Sept. 4/1 He remembered that a Bird cannot fly with one Wing so he gently raised the Index Finger and gave the Prescription Clerk [i.e. the bartender] a Look, which in the Sign Language means, ‘Repeat the Dose’.
1940 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 28 Dec. 10/5 Visit the Big Apple and take a good, stiff drink. Well, you can't fly with one wing. Take another.
1975 J. L. Schott No Left Turns iii. 33 He looked around for the waitress. ‘Two more of the same, sweetheart. A bird can't fly on one wing.’
2006 D. Ellis Bockety (2007) xxxix. 201 The bottle would be produced and a tot poured for my dad, who would say..‘Ah, well, I suppose one wouldn't hurt me.’ If the bottle was offered again, he'd say, ‘Why not? Sure a bird never flew on one wing.’
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wingv.

Brit. /wɪŋ/, U.S. /wɪŋ/
Forms: see preceding; also past participle Middle English wyngged, y-whyngged.
Etymology: < wing n.
I. Senses derived from wing n. 1 5.
1. transitive. To carve (a quail or partridge). Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of fowls > prepare fowls [verb (transitive)] > carve > partridge or quail
wing1486
1486 Bk. St. Albans f vij b A Quayle wyngged.
c1500 Ffor to serve a Lord in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 375 To tyre or to ele a partorich or a quayle y-whyngged: rere uppe whynge and legge, as of an henne; cowche them aboute the carcas; no sawse save salte, or mustard and sugar.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. Av Wynge that quayle.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. ii. 15 Him list not spend his idle meales In quinsing Plouers, or in winning [sic] Quailes.
1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 415 (bis) .
a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 269.
1804 J. Farley London Art Cookery (ed. 10) 292 Partridges and quails. To wing either of these birds, nothing more is to be done than to raise the legs and wings.
2.
a. intransitive (†occasionally reflexive). To use one's wings, take flight, fly; occasionally transferred to sail; figurative to ‘fly’, pass swiftly, speed; also (chiefly U.S.) with an aircraft as subject, or transferred of a passenger, to travel by aircraft. Originally poetic or rhetorical.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)]
lakeOE
flyOE
runOE
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giddap1938
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society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > swiftly
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > fly (as) with wings
fleec1000
flyOE
winga1616
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (reflexive)] > fly
winga1616
society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > fly [verb (intransitive)]
fly1848
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > fly (in) an aircraft [verb (intransitive)] > in an aeroplane
aeroplane1907
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 134 I (an old Turtle) Will wing me to some wither'd bough. View more context for this quotation
1622 ‘Jack Dawe’ Vox Graculi 51 It will be better going by Land..then to wing against winde and tide without a tilt-Cloath.
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxii. sig. O3 Iuvenal does tell vs, how Life wings away!
1688 J. Crowne Darius v. 62 He wings along the Air in Clouds of Dust, And does not march, but fly.
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 299 I had nothing else to do but to wing to the Place where the Joy of my Life did once reside.
a1815 W. Hutton Life & Hist. Family (1816) 238 The year winged away in feasting upon a pleasure to come.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vii. 151 Many of these wild tribes..were now winging toward their nests.
1844 T. Hood Haunted House iii, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 8 In the upper gloom The bat—or something in its shape—was winging.
1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. xv He was dead before the telegram, winging over sea and land, announced his danger to his son.
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 21 July 1/8 (heading) English plane wings swiftly over Atlantic.
1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1974) xxviii. 197 A single bit of radio information, sent winging across space to the Earth, would cost far less than a penny.
1977 Time 30 May 25/2 As Air Force One winged toward Washington, one Californian was clearly relieved that Carter's visit had been so brief.
1983 Fortune 18 Apr. 137/1 Winging into New Hampshire from Los Angeles headquarters aboard an Arco jet one Sunday, Cooper began the next three days at 7:30.
1984 Times 4 Aug. 32 The Prince of Wales flies back from Monaco, only to wing off within hours for Papua New Guinea.
b. In past participle = flying, on the wing. Obsolete or archaic.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. vii. 21 Thou antique Death,..Two Talbots winged through the lither Skie, In thy despight shall scape Mortalitie. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 350 I saw Ioues Bird, the Roman Eagle, wing'd From the spungy South, to this part of the West. View more context for this quotation
1737 H. Brooke tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem iii. (1738) 10 Far wing'd before his Squadron Tancred came.
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen vi. 99 Brave thoughts winged on Grecian words gained their natural mastery over Terror.
3. transitive.
a. To fly through, upon, or across; to traverse by flying.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move through the air [verb (transitive)] > pursue (a flight) > fly through or upon
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1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 13 The crowes and choghes that wing the midway ayre. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 936 I alone first undertook To wing the desolate Abyss. View more context for this quotation
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 119 All that roam the Wood, Or wing the Sky, or roll along the Flood.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 81 Thoughts that wing infinity; apprehensions that reach through eternity.
1820 P. B. Shelley To Skylark in Prometheus Unbound 201 The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
1883 R. Whitelaw tr. Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus in Sophocles Transl. into Eng. Verse 1081 Oh that I were a dove, that I might wing the wind With pinion swift and strong.
b. with cognate obj. (flight, way).
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1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 96 New ways I must attempt, my groveling Name To raise aloft, and wing my flight to Fame. View more context for this quotation
1710 W. Congreve Semele ii. i, in Wks. II. 805 From Samos have I wing'd my Way.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 19 The parting Year prepares to wing its way.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxx. 305 The week fled faster. It had nearly winged its flight away.
1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun xvii. 320 If we were able to wing our way from this Earth into the depths of space.
4.
a. To put wings upon, furnish or fit with wings for flying; to feather (an arrow); also poetic in reference to the sails of a ship.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > produce or develop arms [verb (transitive)] > feather an arrow
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > rig > furnish with sails
sail1600
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1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei 739 Marriage Loves Obiect is;..For her, he wings his shoulders.
1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 90 The Feathers that wing our Arrows.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 785 With sails we wing the masts.
1757 J. Dyer Fleece ii. 60 Nimbly they wing'd the bark.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling xiii. 399 The nicest operation of all,..that of winging the fly.
b. figurative (or in figurative context): To ‘give wings to’; to enable to ‘fly’ or ‘soar’; to give speed or swift motion to; to speed, hasten.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > cause to move swiftly [verb (transitive)]
featherc888
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rattle?1611
race1734
to send along1867
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roller-coast1962
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move through the air [verb (transitive)] > furnish for flying
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a1596 G. Peele Loue King Dauid & Fair Bethsabe (1599) sig. Cjv Cast as was Eua from that glorious soile (Where al delights sat bating wingd with thoughts, Ready to nestle in her naked breasts).
1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother iii. i. sig. F1v Gis. Tyrant, twill haste thy owne death. Rol. Let it wing it.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1656) (1 Cor. vii. 5) 673 Fasting-days are soul-fatting days: prayer is edged and winged thereby.
1657 Lusts Dominion i. iii. sig. B8 Ambition wings his spirit, keep him down.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 175 The Thunder, Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage. View more context for this quotation
c1790 W. Cowper Catharina (N.Y., Morgan Libr.) 2 With her book, and her voice, and her lyre, To wing all her moments at home.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xx. 102 Lively hope, that wing'd The prayers [of St. Gregory] sent up to God for his release.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 44 The hours glided on,..whether winged with joy or laden with affliction.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. vi. v. 349 The convent was at some distance, but..fear would wing her steps.
1849 M. Arnold Sonn. to G. Cruikshank Artist, whose hand, with horror wing'd, hath torn From the rank life of towns this leaf.
5. To convey by or as by means of wings; ‘to transport by flight’ (Johnson); to carry through the air as if flying, to waft (also figurative).
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move through the air [verb (transitive)] > convey in flight
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1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlvii. sig. Q6 It is these two only [sc. water and earth], that seeme to make the body, while the two purer, Fire and Ayre, are wing'd away.
1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 37 First, let's embrace, Heav'n knows who next shall thus Wing ye together.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ii. 67 When future gales shall wing them o'er the tide.
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life 174 Sad was the day when my Willy did leave me, Sad were the moments that wing'd him away.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xiii. 234 There was enough breeze..to wing the shadow of a cloud across the soft grey downs.
1976 C. Egleton State Visit xiv. 123 The VC 10 winged him back to Heathrow.
6. To send flying, let fly (as a missile); to send off swiftly, to dart.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > project through space
to let flyOE
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1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. 832 With his full Strength he bent his angry Bow, And wing'd the feather'd Vengeance at the Foe.
1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus iii Whether any of his train could draw a good bow, and wing a shaft well home.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. viii. 165 The desire to wing a telegram to her he thought it wise to repress.
1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. xi. 204 And therewith I bespake him and winged a word for his ears [ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδων].
7. To brush with a bird's wing: cf. wing n. 1c.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > clean by brushing or sweeping [verb (transitive)] > brush with bird's wing
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1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. xxxiv. 49 With Blew Smalts strew very thick the Border while it is wet; and when it is dry, wing that which is loose off.
1866 J. G. Whittier Snow-bound 156 We sat the clean-winged hearth about.
8. To shoot (a bird) in the wing, so as to disable it from flying without killing it; transferred to wound (a person) with a shot in the arm or shoulder, or some other not vital part; to injure or disable (something) by a shot. Also, to pluck off the wings of (an insect).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shoot game [verb (transitive)] > shoot without killing
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > cause disorder of bird [verb (transitive)] > shoot in wing
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of insects > cause disorder of insect [verb (transitive)] > pluck off wings
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with missile
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > wound in arm or shoulder
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > render (enemy plane) unserviceable
wing1914
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1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) v. iii. 77 We are on the ground first... What are the odds now, that he doesn't wing me?
1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 365 Snatched at, like flies by children, to be winged and let go.
1826 F. Reynolds Life & Times I. 82 Though I regularly fired,..I never even winged a tomtit.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 23 Be steady, and wing him.
1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag v Tompion was..bid do his best to ‘wing’ the Frenchman [sc. a ship].
1914 Times 28 Oct. 9/6 One aeroplane was winged by the Russian soldiery.
II. Senses derived from wing n. 6 9.
9.
a. Military. To furnish (a force) with additional troops on the wings; also of such troops, to form the wings of. (occasionally absol.) Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with wings
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1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 202 This squadron is..flanked with Musket..and winged with horsemen.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 30 In the matne battle, whose puissance on either side, shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.
1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre iii. i. 82 They [sc. cavalry armed with petronels] wing the Launces or Pistolleirs.
1677 W. Hubbard Pres. State New-Eng. 125 We asked him what they intended who promised to wing us.
1699 True Relation Sir T. Morgan's Progress France 6 We were forced to march up in four Lines (for we had not room enough to Wing).
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 102 Having winged his Foot with his Horse and Dragoons.
b. To furnish with side parts or projections, as a building, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > side [verb (transitive)] > furnish with sides > furnish with parts at the sides
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a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 141 Two Courts,..Wingd with Cloisters.
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 56 A new pair of flood-gates, winged with stone-walls.
1820 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XIV. 349/1 If the pillars are to be winged afterwards, they must be left of an extra strength.
1882 C. A. Young Sun vi. 198 The hydrogen is in such a state that the lines of its spectrum are widened and ‘winged’.
10. Nautical.
a. To carry up (ballast) in the wings of a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > supply with ballast > position ballast
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 286 The iron ballast..is winged up 3 or more pigs above the floor-heads.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 735 To Wing up ballast, to carry the dead weight from the bottom as high as consistent with the stability of a ship.
b. intransitive. to wing out: to set a sail on a boom projecting sideways. Hence winged out or wung out, = wing-and-wing adj. at wing n. Compounds 2.
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1867 G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life i. 14 Here was I, deep-loaded, winged out, and oft-times flying before the winter blast.
1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wung out.
1907 Rudder Nov. 827/2 On rounding, the schooners winged out; but..the wind came out of East of South, and they jibed their foresails and trimmed sheets a little.
1956 A. F. Loomis ‘Hotspur’ Story 109 Thither we sailed, main~sail to starboard and staysail wung out.
1956 A. F. Loomis ‘Hotspur’ Story 214 The wung-out schooner which we had noticed earlier in the afternoon lost the race.
1969 H. Horwood Newfoundland x. 71 Tearing down the outside passages with sails ‘wung out’ before a roaring nor'-wester.
11. Theatrical slang. transitive. To study (a part) in or about the wings, having undertaken it at short notice; also intransitive. Hence in to wing it; now usually in slang use (originally and chiefly U.S.), to improvise; to speak or act without preparation, to make statements on unstudied matters (see also quot. 1950).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > learn (a part)
study?1552
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the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [verb (intransitive)] > act or do without planning
improvise1788
to go off1812
improvisatize1830
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1885 Stage 21 Aug. 12/2 ‘To wing’..indicates the capacity to play a rôle without knowing the text, and the word itself came into use from the fact that the artiste frequently received the assistance of a special prompter, who..stood..screened..by a piece of the scenery or a wing.
1886 Stage Gossip 70 In the event of an artiste being suddenly called upon to play a part of which he knows nothing..he frequently has to ‘wing’ the part.
1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iii. 39 He must give a performance by ‘winging it’—that is, by refreshing his memory for each scene in the wings before he goes on to play it.
1950 Amer. Speech 25 238/1 Wing it, vb., to lay off an approximate 90° angle by eye.
1959 Esquire Nov. 70 Wing, to do something without preparation.
1970 Time 26 Jan. 12 Cox: The resistance put up against us dictates [our] strategy. Bernstein:..You mean you've got to wing it.
1971 Publishers' Weekly 6 Dec. 20/2 They can talk about the book, kind of winging it based on the ads, just like other people do with reviews.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Jan. 8/2 Mr. Trudeau came without notes, choosing to wing it, and struggled..unsuccessfully to establish Mr. Leger's resemblance to an owl.
12. intransitive. To incline to a particular wing, side, or party. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > tend or incline [verb (intransitive)] > go in a certain direction
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1617 R. Fenton Treat. Church Rome 52 This made the people wing on that side.

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b. To cause (an object) to sail through the air; to throw, fling; to lob. U.S. colloquial.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > project through space
to let flyOE
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1970 R. Coover Universal Baseball Assoc. ii. 34 Dad delivering the pitch, winging it in there, time after time.
1987 K.O. Sept. 34/3 Not until he was wobbly and desperate in the fifth round, did MacDonald start winging his right with abandon.
1991 Sports Illustr. 18 Mar. 98/1 One kid said he thought it meant that the better attitude a player had, the better he would be as a player. I winged the eraser at him.
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