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Word Meanings - PINIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any winged creature.

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  • WINGY
    1. Having wings; rapid. With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind. Addison.
  • CREATURELY
    Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.
  • WINGFISH
    A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
  • WINGLET
    A bastard wing, or alula. (more info) 1. A little wing; a very small wing.
  • CREATURESHIP
    The condition of being a creature.
  • WINGMANSHIP
    Power or skill in flying. Duke of Argyll.
  • WING-LEAVED
    Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.
  • WING-FOOTED
    1. Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. Drayton. Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike
  • WINGLESS
    Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly. Wingless bird , the apteryx.
  • WING-HANDED
    Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
  • WING
    1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity. Who heaves old ocean, and whowings the storms. Pope. Living, to wing with mirth the weary hours. Longfellow. 2. To supply with wings or sidepieces. The main battle,
  • WING-SHELL
    Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing. Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus. Any pteropod shell.
  • CREATURE
    1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. Fuller. God's first creature was light.
  • WINGED
    Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate. (more info) 1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions. 2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings;
  • WINGER
    One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel's hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships. Totten.
  • CREATURELESS
    Without created beings; alone. God was alone And creatureless at first. Donne.
  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • KNOWINGLY
    1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
  • TWINGE
    OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. þün to press, OHG. duhen, and probably
  • ZWINGLIAN
    Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli , the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial
  • FOLLOWING EDGE
    See ABOVE
  • KNOWINGNESS
    The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
  • SWINGDEVIL
    The European swift.
  • OVERWING
    To outflank. Milton.
  • WHITEWING
    The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
  • THROWING
    a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
  • SPUR-WINGED
    Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. Spur-winged goose , any one of several species of long-legged African geese of the genus Plectropterus and allied genera, having a strong spur on the bend of the wing, as the Gambo goose and
  • KNOWING
    1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.
  • INGROWING
    Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance. Ingrowing nail, one whose edges are becoming imbedded in the adjacent flesh.
  • OVERFLOWING
    An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
  • SWINGE
    See SPENSER
  • SWINGLE
    1. To dangle; to wave hanging. Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure.
  • SWINGLETREE
    A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree.

 

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