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Wing
·vt To supply with wings or sidepieces.
II. Wing ·vt To transport by flight; to cause to fly.
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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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Handed
·adj With hands joined; hand in hand.
II. Handed ·adj Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
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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-footed
·adj Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.
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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.
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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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Double-handed
·adj Having two hands.
II. Double-handed ·adj Deceitful; deceptive.
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Fast-handed
·adj Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.
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Free-handed
·adj Open-handed; liberal.
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Hard-handed
·adj Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
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High-handed
·adj Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
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Horny-handed
·adj Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
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Large-handed
·adj Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
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Left-handed
·adj Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment.
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Light-handed
·adj Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
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Lily-handed
·adj Having white, delicate hands.
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Open-handed
·adj Generous; liberal; munificent.
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Red-handed
(·adj / ·adv) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands;
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Right-handed
·adj Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
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Short-handed
·adj Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
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Single-handed
·adj Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
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Sinister-handed
·adj Left-handed; hence, unlucky.
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Strait-handed
·adj Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
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Three-handed
·adj Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, ...
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Two-handed
·adj Used with both hands; as, a two-handed sword.
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Left-handed
(Judg. 3:15; 20:16), one unable to use the right hand skilfully, and who therefore uses the left; an...
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caw-handed, or caw-pawed
Awkward, not dextrous, ready, or nimble.
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two-handed
Great. A two-handed fellow or wench; a great strapping man orwoman,
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fore-handed
To be fore-handed is to be in good circumstances; to be comfortably off. The expression is much used...
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cooche-handed
left-handed. Devon.
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light-handed
Short of the complement of men.
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short-handed
A deficient complement of men, or short-handed by many being on the sick-list.
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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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left-handed wife
A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his con...
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two handed put
The amorous congress.
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two-handed fellows
Those who are both seamen and soldiers, or artificers; as the marines and, specially, marine artille...
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two-handed saw
A very useful instrument in ship-carpentry; it is much longer than the hand-saw, and requires two me...
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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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