Definition of wing

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Wing (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..

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Proclitic :: Proclitic (a.) Leaning forward; -- said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.
Binervate :: Binervate (a.) Having only two nerves, as the wings of some insects..
Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..
Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels..
Deluge :: Deluge (n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.)..
Robinet :: Robinet (n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
Subsequent :: Subsequency (n.) The act or state of following; -- opposed to precedence.
Limbat :: Limbat (n.) A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later..
Shut :: Shut (a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are..
Marker :: Marker (n.) An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
Sequent :: Sequent (a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.
Swingle :: Swingle (v. i.) To dangle; to wave hanging.
Shadowing :: Shadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shado.
Helicograph :: Helicograph (n.) An instrument for drawing spiral lines on a plane.
Swing :: Swing (n.) The act of swinging; a waving, oscillating, or vibratory motion of a hanging or pivoted object; oscillation; as, the swing of a pendulum..
Fibula :: Fibula (n.) A needle for sewing up wounds.
Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) A faint representation; an adumbration.
Bulrush :: Bulrush (n.) A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water..
Separatism :: Separatism (n.) The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
Melanoscope :: Melanoscope (n.) An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit..
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