Wing: Definition and part of speech

Wing

n. One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
n. One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.
n. Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
n. One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures.
n. One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes.
n. Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing.
n. Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
n. Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
n. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
n. Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance.
1n. 1 One of the sides of the stags in a theater.
1n. 1 One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

imp. & p. p. of Wing
a. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.
a. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime.
a. Swift; rapid.
a. Wounded or hurt in the wing.
a. Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.
a. Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.

n. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
n. The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.
n. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.

n. A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.
n. The red currant.
n. The bilberry.

n. A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; — usually associated with crib-biting, or cribbing. See Cribbing, 4.

adv. Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows.
n. The point or side from which the wind blows; as, to ply to the windward; — opposed to leeward.
a. Situated toward the point from which the wind blows; as, the Windward Islands.