▪ I. winged, a.
(ˈwɪŋɪd, wɪŋd)
Forms: see wing n.; also 5 venged(e, 6 Sc. vengit.
[f. wing n. + -ed2.]
1. a. Having wings, as a bird, bat, insect, supernatural or mythical being, etc.; represented or figured with wings.
Her. Having the wings of a specified tincture.
Also in numerous parasynthetic compounds, as long-winged, strong-winged, swift-winged, white-winged, etc., q.v. in their alphabetical places.
| c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 527 The wynged god Mercurie. 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 22816 Toward the heuene sche took hir fflyght; For..Sche was whynged, ffor to ffle. 1513 Douglas æneis i. x. 13 The vengit god of luif. 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 111 b, An Harpie, Vert, Wynged de Or. 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 235 Loue lookes not with the eyes, but with the minde, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blinde. 1599 ― Hen. V, ii. Chorus 7 With winged heeles, as English Mercuries. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 55 One shap'd and wing'd like one of those from Heav'n By us oft seen. 1708 Prior Turtle & Sparrow 172 Our winged Friends thro' all the Grove. 1819 Keats Hyperion i. 197 His winged minions in close clusters stood. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 66 This insect becomes winged in the month of August. 1854 Tennyson Marr. Geraint 275 Tits, wrens, and all wing'd nothings peck him dead! 1873 E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) V, Winged Sea-horses. 1891 Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xv, The stop which regulated the play of the water was formed into the winged figure of a child moulded in silver. |
b. poet. Applied to a ship with sails set.
| c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. cvii. viii, How many mounting winged tree For traffique leave retiring land. 1614 W. Browne Inner Temple Masque i. Syrens' Song 1 Steere hither, steere, your winged pines, All beaten mariners. 1634 Rainbow Labour (1635) 34 Why..doe those winged vessels cut the water? 1725 Pope Odyss. viii. 550 From the shores the winged navy flies. 1812 Byron Ch. Har. ii. xxviii, Sailors..Coop'd in their winged sea-girt citadel. |
† c. Full of wings; crowded with flying birds. poet. Obs.
| 1634 Milton Comus 730 Th' earth cumber'd, and the wing'd air dark't with plumes. |
2. Furnished with or having a wing or wings, i.e. lateral part(s), appendage(s), or projection(s).
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 13/1 Ther forme, which we cal Terrebellum alatum, the winged trepane. 1613 T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. iv. ii. 178 Sometimes they would make a winged army, so that the maine body thereof should be in the middle, & on each side a lesser company. 1620–55 I. Jones Stone-Heng 76 Dipteros Hypæthros, which is double winged about uncovered. 1780 A. Young Tour Irel. II. 198 Mr. Wyse ploughed lightly with a winged plough. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 520 Winged grass-seed harrows. 1859 Reeve Brittany 176 A well-to-do peasant father and son with the embroidered gaiter, winged leather boot, many-buttoned waistcoat. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5728, A winged wardrobe, with circular ends. 1881 J. Evans Anc. Bronze Implem. 71 The winged celts may be generally described as those in which the flanges are short and have a great amount of lateral extension. 1923 J. C. Rogers Engl. Furnit. fig. 33 A fine example of a winged armchair upholstered in damask. |
3. In special scientific applications.
† a. Bot. = pinnate 1 a. Also winged clefts, the divisions of a pinnatifid leaf (cf. wing-cleft, wing n. 24). Obs. (An inexact rendering of L. pinnatus, in this case intended to mean ‘feathered’ or ‘feather-shaped’.) b. Bot., etc. Having wings, i.e. lateral processes or appendages, as a stem, seed, fruit, shell, etc. c. Bot. in names of plants distinguished by having pinnate leaves (obs.), or winged stems or other parts; winged bean, a tropical legume, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, native to south-eastern Asia and cultivated for its edible leaves, winged pods, and tubers; cf. Goa bean s.v. Goa1; winged elm, a small N. American species of elm (Ulmus alata) with corky winged branches; winged pea, a plant of the S. European genus Tetragonolobus (now included in Lotus), having four-winged pods (see pea1 3); winged thistle N.Z., either of two thistles of the genus Carduus, C. tenuiflorus or C. pycnocephalus, which have winged stems.
| a. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. 84 Winged leaves; like those of Tansy. 1721 Mortimer Husb. (ed. 5) II. 214 Many winged Leaves like those of the Ash. 1776 Withering Brit. Plants Gloss., Winged-Leaves, when an undivided leaf⁓stalk hath many little leaves growing from each side; as in..Ash and Pea. Ibid., Winged-Clefts. 1796 Ibid. (ed. 3) III. 772 Leaf triply-winged. |
| b. 1776 Withering Brit. Plants Gloss., Winged-Leaf⁓stalk: one that is not cylindrical, but flattish, with a thin leafy border at each edge. 1787 tr. Linnæus' Fam. Plants I. 383 The seeds pedicel'd pendulous three-side-winged. 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 203 Trigonal, with angular, winged, membranaceous processes. 1866 Treas. Bot. 1135/1 Tetragonolobus, a genus of leguminous plants allied to Lotus, from which they are well distinguished by their quadrangular winged pods. |
| c. 1650 [W. Howe] Phytol. Brit. 31 Corallina pennata longior. Inter Scopulos. Winged Coralline. 1665 Lovell Herball (ed. 2) 470 Winged wind weed. 1739 Miller Gard. Dict. II, Ochrus, Winged Pea. 1832 Veg. Subst. Food of Man 168 The Winged Yam. 1858 A. Gray Man. Bot. U.S. (1860) 396 Ulmus alata..(Winged Elm). 1910 H. F. Macmillan Handbk. Trop. Gardening & Planting 189 Psophocarpus tetragonolobus. Winged bean; Goa bean; Manilla bean. 1915 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 21 June 550 Winged thistle [seed]..About the same size as spear⁓thistle seed. 1966 Encycl. N.Z. III. 599/1 Noxious weeds..are here listed... Winged thistle. 1975 Times 30 Aug. 12/7 An international panel..[is] recommending a major development effort to turn..the winged bean into a main crop. |
4. fig. (or in fig. context): Capable of or performing some movement or action figured as flight, ‘flying’; flying or passing swiftly, swift, rapid.
| 1513 Douglas æneis ix. viii. 30 The weyngit messengeir, Fame. 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. iii. 16 Combe downe his haire; looke, looke, it stands vpright Like Lime-twigs set to catch my winged soule. 1596 ― 1 Hen. IV, iv. iv. 2 Beare this sealed Briefe With winged haste to the Lord Marshall. 1600 ― A.Y.L. iv. i. 142 Ros... A Womans thought runs before her actions. Orl. So do all thoughts, they are wing'd. 16.. Lust's Domin. i. ii. (1657) B 5 b, Old time I'le..be a foot-boy to thy winged hours. 1638 P. Vincent True Relat. in Mass. Hist. Coll. (1837) Ser. iii. VI. 39 Divers loopholes, through which they let fly their winged messengers [i.e. arrows]. 1639 Fuller Holy War iv. vii. (1640) 180 Which race [sc. the Spanish gennet], for their winged speed, the Poets feigned to be begot of the wind. 1651 ― etc. Abel Rediv., Ramus 327 He was belov'd of all that lov'd the fame of learning; for he had a winged name. [Cf. Cicero, nomen nostrum volitare et vagari.] 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 508 The winged Thunder takes his way From the cold North. 1709 Prior Henry & Emma 333 And winged Deaths in whistling Arrows fly. 1799 Campbell Pleas. Hope ii. 377 What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel-visits, few and far between. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstrel I. 175 With double speed the wing'd hour gallops by. 1824 A. Grant Mem. & Corr. (1844) III. 65 The dear old friends with whom I passed that winged week. 1866 Lowell At Comm. Dinner, A kind of winged prose that could fly if it would. 1877 Mrs. Forrester Mignon viii, Oswald leaves her with winged heels to make his arrangements. 1877 Tennyson Harold iii. ii, Wing'd souls flying Beyond all change and in the eternal distance To settle on the Truth. |
b. esp. of words or speech (rendering or imitating the Homeric phrase ἔπεα πτερόεντα).
| 1616 Chapman Odyss. x. 488 Circe..Bowing her neare me, these wing'd words did vse. 1697 Dryden æneis iv. 388 Then thus, with winged Words, the God began. 1791 Cowper Iliad xxii. 92 His mother..Then in wing'd accents, weeping, him bespake. 1813 Byron Br. Abydos i. viii, Through her ears Those winged words like arrows sped. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxvi, When our own winged words seem to be hovering around us. |
5. Comb., as (in sense 4) winged-footed, winged-heeled, † (in sense 3 a) winged-leaved adjs.
| 1869 Ruskin Q. of Air i. §26 There..is born the shepherd of the clouds, *winged-footed, and deceiving. 1590 *Winged heeld [see wingy a. 4, quot. 1596]. 1808 Cobbett Weekly Reg. 25 June 1001 If..such a winged-heeled gentleman..should be to be found in their country. |
| 1824 Loudon Green-house Comp. i. 88 Lotus jacobæus,..A..pea-flower, on a delicate *winged-leaved plant. |
Hence wingedly (ˈwɪŋɪdlɪ) adv.; wingedness (ˈwɪŋɪdnɪs).
| 1651 Davenant Gondibert i. ii. lxvii, (So *wingedly he wheeles) No one could catch, what all with trouble finde. 1710 R. Ward Life H. More 146 So lightly and wingedly did he pass through it. 1818 Keats Endym. i. 813 Nor with aught else can our souls interknit So wingedly. |
| 1787 Beckford Italy (1834) II. 325 Such a palpable manifestation of archangelic beauty and *wingedness. 1909 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity i. x. 172 Here we see that the one ‘dose’ of wingedness—as we may call it—sufficed only to bring the wings to half the full size, and two ‘doses’ are needed to develop them properly. |
▪ II. winged, ppl. a.
(wɪŋd)
[f. wing v. + -ed1.]
1. Shot or wounded in the wing.
| 1789 Ess. on Shooting xiv. 223 He [sc. the dog] should be held in a string, ready to be slipped in case of need, after a winged partridge, or a wounded hare. 1810 Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 149 Winged, wounded, or dead birds. 1865 Meredith Rhoda Fleming xix, He like a winged eagle, striving to raise himself from time to time. |
2. Brushed with a bird's wing (wing v. 7).
| 1866 Whittier Snow-bound 156 We sat the clean-winged hearth about. |