having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind
<adj.all> the winged feet of Mercury
very fast; as if with wings
<adj.all> on winged feet
Winged \Winged\, a. 1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.
2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. [R.]
How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake. --J. S. Harford.
3. Swift; rapid. ``Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal.'' --Shak.
4. Wounded or hurt in the wing.
5. (Bot.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.
6. (Her.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.
7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. ``The winged air darked with plumes.'' --Milton.
Wing \Wing\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Winged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Winging}.] 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, whose puissance on either side Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse. --Shak.
3. To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some withered bough. --Shak.
4. To move through in flight; to fly through.
There's not an arrow wings the sky But fancy turns its point to him. --Moore.
5. To cut off the wings of or to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird; also, [fig.] to wound the arm of a person. [1913 Webster +PJC]
{To wing a flight}, to exert the power of flying; to fly.
Psyche, the winged goddess who adorns White Rock beverage labels, has grown more svelte, too.
More than 2,000 people invaded a housing development to see a little American bird, the first golden winged warbler recorded in Europe.
Air Force Col. Frederick Gregory, commander of the five-person crew, guided the winged spaceplane to a touchdown on a concrete runway at 4:30 p.m. PST after a five-day flight that covered nearly 2 million miles.
The winged spacecraft fleet is scheduled to resume flights in August.
Previously only three trees in the United States were known to serve as roosts for the winged mammals in the summer, when they give birth.
In a smallish garden, the answer is E. altus compactus, the winged form with branches that will have spread only about 3ft high and wide after several years.
Millions of the winged creatures are expected to emerge in parts of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Wisconsin during the next few days, covering back yards and forests with their brownish, crunchy bodies.
Perhaps that was because the law is five years old. To cap that, however, the 'News-Urgent' missive that winged its way to the nation's editors yesterday managed to be both too late and too early at the same time.
Gov. Rose Mofford has mailed 5,000 holiday cards depicting herself as a saucy Goddess of Liberty, the winged statue atop the Capitol dome.
Good socialists, for instance, were supposed to call angels "winged New Year's dolls," but the jargon didn't catch on.
Mary Dower, owner of Dower's Tavern in Pittsburgh's South Side neighborhood, says thieves stole the tavern's mascot, a 5-by-6-foot winged horse made of steel.
The couple said they expect to spend up to $4,000 to rid their house of the winged varmints.