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Wingy. 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. Wingy a. [f. WING sb. + -Y1.]

1   † 1.  Of, pertaining to, or resembling a wing or wings; wing-like. Obs.

2 1658.  Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, iv. 66. The lower leaf [of leguminous plants] closely involving the rudimental Cod, and the alary or wingy divisions embracing or hanging over it.

3 1694.  Addison, Ovid’s Met., II. Phaeton, 183. With wingy speed [they] outstrip the eastern wind.

4   2.  Having wings, winged (poet.); having large or conspicuous wings (cf. leggy).

5 1596.  [see 4].

6 1718.  Rowe, trans. Lucan, V. 1029. If some rushing Storm the Journey cross, The wingy Leaders all are at a loss.

7 1757.  Dyer, Fleece, I. 588. With tar Prevent the wingy swarm and scorching heat.

8 1892.  ‘Michael Field,’ Sight & Song, 1. L’Indifférent. Watteau. The Louvre.        He dances on; the world is his, The sunshine and his wingy hat.

9 1918.  [A. G. Gardiner], Leaves in Wind, 2. He was one of those wingy, nippy, intrepid insects that we call, vaguely, mosquitoes.

10   3.  fig. Capable of ‘flight,’ soaring, aspiring; soaring out of reach, eluding grasp or comprehension.

11 1643.  Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., I. § 9. Those wingy mysteries in Divinity, and airy subtleties in Religion. Ibid., § 32. The noble Soule … Whose wingy nature ever doth aspire, To reach a place whence first it tooke its fire.

12 1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 792. That this [etherial vehicle], being made Light, and Alate or Wingy, might no way hinder the Souls Ascent upward.

13 1760.  Beattie, Ode to Hope, II. i. Youth’s gallant trophies … invite His wingy nerves to climb.

14 1855.  Singleton, Æn., II. 1121. The phantom-form … a match For wanton winds, and likest wingy [orig. volucri] sleep.

15   4.  Comb., as wingy-footed, -heeled adjs. (cf. wing-footed, WING sb. 21).

16 1596.  Spenser, F. Q. (ed. 2), III. xii. 12. [Fear] fast away did fly, As ashes pale of hew, and wingyheeld [1590 winged heeld].

17 1716.  Rowe, Ode for 1716, iii. 16. Wingy-footed was he Born.

18 1740.  Somerville, Hobbinol, I. 304. Thus on the slacken’d Rope The wingy-footed Artist … Stands tott’ring.

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