Winged: Definition and part of speech

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.

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