Word Direct Answers

What does "winged" mean?

Winged: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Swift; rapid. "Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal." Shak.
  2. 3.Wounded or hurt in the wing.
  3. 4.(Bot.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.
  4. 5.(Her.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.
  5. 6.Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. "The winged air darked with plumes." Milton.

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