Definition of wing

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Wing (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..

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Vert :: Vert (n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right..
Wing-leaved :: Wing-leaved (a.) Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.
Genethliac :: Genethliac (a.) Pertaining to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth.
Exemplifier :: Exemplifier (n.) One who exemplifies by following a pattern.
Absorbent :: Absorbent (a.) Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
Wing-shell :: Wing-shell (n.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus.
Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held..
Wishful :: Wishful (a.) Showing desire; as, wishful eyes..
Exemplification :: Exemplification (n.) The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
Pome :: Pome (n.) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing..
Swingle :: Swingle (v. i.) To dangle; to wave hanging.
Flood :: Flood (v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood..
Pseudohalter :: Pseudohalter (n.) One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera..
Van :: Van (n.) A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain..
Voltaism :: Voltaism (n.) That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals..
Excurrent :: Excurrent (a.) Running or flowing ou.
Duster :: Duster (n.) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
Paternal :: Paternal (a.) Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care..
Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite..
Dayfly :: Dayfly (n.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera, of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; the ephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day in the winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral..
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