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Wing

noun

1.

A movable organ for flying (one of a pair).

2.

One of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane.

3.

A stage area out of sight of the audience. Synonyms: backstage, offstage.

4.

A unit of military aircraft.

5.

The side of military or naval formation. Synonym: flank.

6.

A hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side.

7.

(in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft.

8.

A group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function.

9.

The wing of a fowl.

10.

A barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud. Synonym: fender.

11.

An addition that extends a main building. Synonyms: annex, annexe, extension.

verb

(past & past part. winged; pres. part. winging)

1.

Travel through the air; be airborne. Synonym: fly.

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"Wing" Quotes from Famous Books

... here Over the lofty mountains? Surely your nest was there less drear, Taller the trees, the outlook clear;— Will you then only bring me Longings, but naught to wing me? ...

— Poems and Songs • Bjornstjerne Bjornson

... spent in arranging our apartments. For convenience sake, we decided to close part of the chateau and all live as near together as possible in one wing. The children and younger servants seemed to consider the whole as a huge joke—or rather, a prolonged picnic party, and the house rang with peals of ...

— My Home In The Field of Honor • Frances Wilson Huard

... sad a face in front of thine; For we two look two ways, and cannot shine With the same sunlight on our brow and hair. On me thou lookest with no doubting care, As on a bee shut in a crystalline; Since sorrow hath shut me safe in love's divine, And to spread wing and fly in the outer air Were most impossible failure, if I strove To fail so. But I look on thee—on thee— Beholding, besides love, the end of love, Hearing oblivion beyond memory; As one who sits and gazes from above, Over the rivers to the ...

— The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

... at intervals with cobwebs. There is something humorous and incongruous in the physical associations of this chapel. It is flanked with a doctor's shop and a money-lending establishment; with a savings bank and a solicitor's office. The bank nestles very complacently under its lower wing, and in the ratio of its size is a much better looking building. The text regarding the deposit of treasure in that place where neither moth nor rust operate may be well worked in the chapel; but it is rather at a discount in ...

— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus

... obstinate cases blow a little gum Arabic up the nostrils through a quill, which will immediately stop the discharge; powdered alum is also good. 3. Pressure by the finger over the small artery near the ala (wing) of the nose, on the side where the blood is flowing, is said to arrest ...

— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs

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