Word Meanings - WING-FOOTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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 swimming organs; -- said of the pteropod mollusks.

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  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
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  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
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  Capable of being adapted.
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