Wing-shell: Definition and part of speech

Wing-shell

n. Any pteropod shell.
n. Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing.
n. Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus.

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.

n. One of the casks stowed in the wings of a vessel’s hold, being smaller than such as are stowed more amidships.

n. A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.

a. Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; — said of the pteropod mollusks.
a. Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.
a. Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.

a. Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.

As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.

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.