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a. 1. Having large and strong or complete wings. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ready for flight; eager. [ Archaic ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) (a) Having a “goosewing.” (b) Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; -- said of bats. See Cheiroptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace-winged flies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person who belongs to the political left.
Syn. -- socialist, collectivist, leftist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; -- said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Scale-winged. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spur-winged goose (Zool.), 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 (Plectropterus Gambensis) and the Egyptian, or Nile, goose (Alopochen Aegyptiaca). --
Spur-winged plover (Zool.), an Old World plover (Hoplopterus spinosus) having a sharp spur on the bend of the wing. It inhabits Northern Africa and the adjacent parts of Asia and Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. & n. See Singe. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Swinged p. pr. & vb. n. Swingeing ] [ OE. swengen, AS. swengan to shake, causative of swingan. See Swing. ] 1. To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had swinged him soundly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And swinges his own vices in his son. C. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move as a lash; to lash. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing. [ Obs. ] Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Power; sway; influence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Huge; very large. [ Colloq. ] Arbuthnot. Byron. -- Swinge"ing*ly, adv. Dryden. [1913 Webster]

n. [ AS. swingele whip, scourge. See Swing. ] The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who swings or whirls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who swinges. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. 1. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. [ 1913 Webster ]

A master that gives you . . . twinges by the ears. L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side. “ A twinge for my own sin.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Twinged p. pr. & vb. n. Twinging. ] [ OE. twengen, AS. twengan; akin to OE. twingen to pain, afflict, 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. tvinge, and AS. þün to press, OHG. dūhen, and probably to E. thong. Perhaps influenced by twitch. Cf. Thong. ] 1. To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a man is past his sense,
There's no way to reduce him thence,
But twinging him by the ears or nose,
Or laying on of heavy blows. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gnat . . . twinged him [ the lion ] till he made him tear
himself, and so mastered him. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake. J. S. Harford. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Swift; rapid. “Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Wounded or hurt in the wing. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Bot.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Her.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. “The winged air darked with plumes.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]