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• Wale

  ·noun A wale knot, or wall knot. II. Wale ·vt To mark with wales, or stripes. III. Wale ·noun A ti...

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• Wing

  ·vt To supply with wings or sidepieces. II. Wing ·vt To transport by flight; to cause to fly. III....

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• wing

  The projecting part of a steamer's deck before and abaft each of the paddle-boxes, bounded by the wi...

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• wing-and-wing

  A ship coming before the wind with studding-sails on both sides; also said of fore-and-aft vessels, ...

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• wale-reared

  Synonymous with wall-sided. ...

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• wale-knot

  See wall-knot ...

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• Bat's-wing

  ·adj ·Alt. of <<Batwing>>. ...

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• Sea wing

  ·- A wing shell (Avicula). ...

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• Standard-wing

  ·noun A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing ere...

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• Water wing

  ·- One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to pr...

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• Wing-footed

  ·adj Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. II. Wing-footed ·adj Having wings attached ...

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• Wing-handed

  ·adj Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls. ...

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• Wing-leaved

  ·adj Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves. ...

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• Wing-shell

  ·noun Any pteropod shell. II. Wing-shell ·noun Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. ·s...

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• blue-wing

  n. a sportsman's name (as in England)for the bird called the Shoveller (q.v.). ...

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• bronze-wing

  n. a bird with a lustrousshoulder, Phaps chalcoptera, Lath. Called also Bronze-wing Pigeon. 1790. ...

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• bats-wing-coral

  n. the Australian wood Erythrina vespertilio, Bentham, N.O. Leguminosae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Usef...

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• Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

  (b. 1855) Dramatist. The Magistrate, Sweet Lavender, The Profligate, The Weaker Sex, Lady Bountiful...

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• wing up ballast, to

  To carry the dead weight from the bottom as high as consistent with the stability of a ship, in orde...

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