Wing-footed

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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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• Footed

  ·adj Having a foothold; established. II. Footed ·adj Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot. II...

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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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• 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-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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• wing-wale

  A thick plank extending from the extremity of a steamer's paddle-beam to her side; it is also design...

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• Cleft-footed

  ·adj Having a cloven foot. ...

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• Cloven-footed

  ·adj ·Alt. of Cloven-hoofed. ...

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• Fin-footed

  ·adj Having palmate feet. II. Fin-footed ·adj Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe. ...

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• Flat-footed

  ·adj Firm-footed; determined. II. Flat-footed ·adj Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of th...

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• Leaf-footed

  ·adj Having leaflike expansions on the legs; — said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Le...

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• Light-footed

  ·adj Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. ...

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• Lobe-footed

  ·adj <<Lobiped>>. ...

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• Mouth-footed

  ·adj Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws. ...

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• Oar-footed

  ·adj Having feet adapted for swimming. ...

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• Polt-footed

  ·adj Having a distorted foot, or a clubfoot or clubfeet. ...

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• Rough-footed

  ·adj Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove. ...

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• Sure-footed

  ·adj Not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse. ...

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• Tickle-footed

  ·adj Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. ...

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• Tiger-footed

  ·adj Hastening to devour; furious. ...

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• Turtle-footed

  ·adj Slow-footed. ...

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• Web-footed

  ·adj Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web-footed fowl. ...

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• flat-footed

  Firm-footed, resolute; firmly, resolutely. A term belonging to the Western political slang with whic...

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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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• pig-footed bandicoot

  n. name given to Choeropus castanotis, Gray, an animal about the sizeof a rabbit, belonging to the ...

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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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