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Winged a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Winged a. Forms: see WING sb.; also 5 venged(e, 6 Sc. vengit. [f. WING sb. + -ED2.]

1   1.  Having wings, as a bird, bat, insect, supernatural or mythical being, etc.; represented or figured with wings.

2   Her. Having the wings of a specified tincture.

3   Also in numerous parasynthetic compounds, as long-winged, strong-winged, swift-winged, white-winged, etc., q.v. in their alphabetical places.

4 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 527. The wynged god Mercurie.

5 1426.  Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 22816. Toward the heuene sche took hir fflyght; For … Sche was whynged, ffor to ffle.

6 1513.  Douglas, Æneis, I. x. 13. The vengit god of luif.

7 1572.  Bossewell, Armorie, II. 111 b. An Harpie, Vert, Wynged de Or.

8 1590.  Shaks., Mids. N., I. i. 235. Loue lookes not with the eyes, but with the minde, And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blinde. Ibid. (1599), Hen. V., II. Chorus 7. With winged heeles, as English Mercuries.

9 1667.  Milton, P. L., V. 55. One shap’d and wing’d like one of those from Heav’n By us oft seen.

10 1708.  Prior, Turtle & Sparrow, 172. Our winged Friends thro’ all the Grove.

11 1819.  Keats, Hyperion, I. 197. His winged minions in close clusters stood.

12 1846.  J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), I. 66. This insect becomes winged in the month of August.

13 1854.  Tennyson, Marr. Geraint, 275. Tits, wrens, and all wing’d nothings peck him dead!

14 1873.  E. Balfour, Cycl. India (ed. 2), V. Winged Sea-horses.

15 1891.  Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xv. The stop which regulated the play of the water was formed into the winged figure of a child moulded in silver.

16   b.  poet. Applied to a ship with sails set.

17 c. 1586.  C’tess Pembroke, Ps. CVII. viii. How many mounting winged tree For traffique leave retiring land.

18 1614.  W. Browne, Inner Temple Masque, i. Syrens’ Song, 1. Steere hither, steere, your winged pines, All beaten mariners.

19 1634.  Rainbow, Labour (1635), 34. Why … doe those winged vessels cut the water?

20 1725.  Pope, Odyss., VIII. 550. From the shores the winged navy flies.

21 1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., II. xxviii. Sailors … Coop’d in their winged sea-girt citadel.

22   † c.  Full of wings; crowded with flying birds. poet. Obs.

23 1634.  Milton, Comus, 730. Th’ earth cumber’d, and the wing’d air dark’t with plumes.

24   2.  Furnished with or having a wing or wings, i.e., lateral part(s), appendage(s) or projection(s).

25 1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 13/1. Ther forme, which we cal Terrebellum alatum, the winged trepane.

26 1613.  T. Godwin, Rom. Antiq., IV. ii. 178. Sometimes they would make a winged army, so that the maine body thereof should be in the middle, & on each side a lesser company.

27 1620–55.  I. Jones, Stone-Heng, 76. Dipteros Hypæthros, which is double winged about uncovered.

28 1780.  A. Young, Tour Irel., II. 198. Mr. Wyse ploughed lightly with a winged plough.

29 1844.  H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 520. Winged grass-seed harrows.

30 1859.  Reeve, Brittany, 176. A well-to-do peasant father and son with the embroidered gaiter, winged leather boot, many-buttoned waistcoat.

31 1862.  Catal. Internat. Exhib. Brit., II. No. 5728. A winged wardrobe, with circular ends.

32 1881.  J. Evans, Anc. Bronze Implem., 71. The winged celts may be generally described as those in which the flanges are short and have a great amount of lateral extension.

33 1923.  J. C. Rogers, Engl. Furnit., fig. 33. A fine example of a winged armchair upholstered in damask.

34   3.  In special scientific applications.

35   † a.  Bot. = PINNATE 1 a. Also winged clefts, the divisions of a pinnatifid leaf (cf. wing-cleft, WING sb. 21). Obs. (An inexact rendering of L. pinnatus, in this case intended to mean ‘feathered’ or ‘feather-shaped.’) b. Bot., etc. Having wings, i.e., lateral processes or appendages, as a stem, seed, fruit, shell, etc. c. Bot. in names of plants distinguished by having pinnate leaves (obs.), or winged stems or other parts. Winged elm, a small N. American species of elm (Ulmus alata) with corky winged branches. Winged pea, a plant of the S. European genus Tetragonolobus (now included in Lotus), having four-winged pods (see PEA1 3).

36   a.  1668.  Wilkins, Real Char., 84. Winged leaves; like those of Tansy.

37 1721.  Mortimer, Husb. (ed. 5), II. 214. Many winged Leaves like those of the Ash.

38 1776.  Withering, Brit. Plants, Gloss., Winged-Leaves, when an undivided leaf-stalk hath many little leaves growing from each side: as in … Ash and Pea. Ibid., Winged-Clefts. Ibid. (1796), (ed. 3), III. 772. Leaf triply-winged.

39   b.  1776.  Withering, Brit. Plants, Gloss., Winged-Leaf-stalk: one that is not cylindrical, but flattish, with a thin leafy border at each edge.

40 1787.  trans. Linnæus’ Fam. Plants, I. 383. The seeds pedicel’d pendulous three-side-winged.

41 1822.  J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 203. Trigonal, with angular, winged, membranaceous processes.

42 1865.  Treas. Bot., 1135/1. Tetragonolobus, a genus of leguminous plants allied to Lotus, from which they are well distinguished by their quadrangular winged pods.

43   c.  1650.  [W. Howe], Phytol. Brit., 31. Corallina pennata longior. Inter Scopulos. Winged Coralline.

44 1665.  Lovell, Herball (ed. 2), 470. Winged wind weed.

45 1739.  Miller, Gard. Dict., II. Ochrus, Winged Pea.

46 1832.  Veg. Subst. Food of Man, 168. The Winged Yam.

47 1858.  A. Gray, Man. Bot. U.S. (1850), 396. Ulmus alata … (Winged Elm).

48   4.  fig. (or in fig. context): Capable of or performing some movement or action figured as flight, ‘flying’; flying or passing swiftly, swift, rapid.

49 1513.  Douglas, Æneis, IX. viii. 30. The weyngit messengeir, Fame.

50 1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., III. iii. 16. Combe downe his haire; looke, looke, it stands vpright Like Lime-twigs set to catch my winged soule. Ibid. (1596), 1 Hen. IV., IV. iv. 2. Beare this sealed Briefe With winged haste to the Lord Marshall. Ibid. (1600), A. Y. L., IV. i. 142. Ros. … A Womans thought runs before her actions. Orl. So do all thoughts, they are wing’d.

51 16[?].  Lust’s Domin., I. i. (1657), B 5 b. Old time I’le … be a foot-boy to thy winged hours.

52 1638.  P. Vincent, True Relat., in, Mass. Hist. Coll. (1837), Ser. III. VI. 39. Divers loopholes, through which they let fly their winged messengers [i.e., arrows].

53 1639.  Fuller, Holy War, IV. vii. (1640), 180. Which race [sc. the Spanish gennet], for their winged speed, the Poets feigned to be begot of the wind. Ibid. (1651), etc., Abel Rediv., Ramus, 327. He was belov’d of all that lov’d the fame of learning; for he had a winged name. [Cf. Cicero, nomen nostrum volitare et vagari.]

54 1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., I. 508. The winged Thunder takes his way From the cold North.

55 1709.  Prior, Henry & Emma, 333. And winged Deaths in whistling Arrows fly.

56 1799.  Campbell, Pleas. Hope, II. 377. What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel-visits, few and far between.

57 1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 175. With double speed the wing’d hour gallops by.

58 1824.  Mrs. Grant, Mem. & Corr. (1844), III. 65. The dear old friends with whom I passed that winged week.

59 1866.  Lowell, At Comm. Dinner. A kind of winged prose that could fly if it would.

60 1877.  Mrs. Forrester, Mignon, viii. Oswald leaves her with winged heels to make his arrangements.

61 1877.  Tennyson, Harold, III. ii. Wing’d souls flying Beyond all change and in the eternal distance To settle on the Truth.

62   b.  esp. of words or speech (rendering or imitating the Homeric phrase ἔπεα πτερόεντα).

63 1616.  Chapman, Odyss., X. 488. Circe … Bowing her neare me, these wing’d words did vse.

64 1697.  Dryden, Æneis, IV. 388. Then thus, with winged Words, the God began.

65 1791.  Cowper, Iliad, XXII. 92. His mother … Then in wing’d accents, weeping, him bespake.

66 1813.  Byron, Br. Abydos, I. viii. Through her ears Those winged words like arrows sped.

67 1876.  Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., xxxvi. When our own winged words seem to be hovering around us.

68   5.  Comb., as (in sense 4) winged-footed, -heeled, † (in sense 3 a) -leaved adjs.

69 1869.  Ruskin, Q. of Air, i. § 26. There … is born the shepherd of the clouds, *winged-footed, and deceiving.

70 1590.  *Winged heeld [see WINGY a. 4, quot. 1596].

71 1808.  Cobbett, Weekly Reg., 25 June, 1001. If … such a winged-heeled gentleman … should be to be found in their country.

72 1824.  Loudon, Green-house Comp., I. 88. Lotus jacobæus,… A … pea-flower, on a delicate *winged-leaved plant.

73   Hence Wingedly adv.; Wingedness.

74 1651.  Davenant, Gondibert, I. II. lxvii. (So *wingedly he wheeles) No one could catch, what all with trouble finde.

75 1710.  R. Ward, Life H. More, 146. So lightly and wingedly did he pass through it.

76 1818.  Keats, Endym., I. 813. Nor with aught else can our souls interknit So wingedly.

77 1787.  Beckford, Italy (1834), II. 325. Such a palpable manifestation of archangelic beauty and *wingedness.

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