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Winged: Definition and part of speech

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Winged

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

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.

Wine: Definition and part of speech

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Wine

  1. n. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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.

Wineberry: Definition and part of speech

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Wineberry

  1. 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.
  2. n. The red currant.
  3. n. The bilberry.

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.

Wind-sucking: Definition and part of speech

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Wind-sucking

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

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.

Windward: Definition and part of speech

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Windward

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

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.