*wing*

adv. In a state of swinging. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + wing. ] On the wing; flying; fluttering. Wallace. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ r }, a. Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. [ p. pr. & vb. n. of billow, verb ] 1. rising in billows. billowing smoke [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. stormy; affected by storms; -- of weather, used prenominally. calm
Syn. -- billowy, surging. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America (Polygala paucifolia), having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.
Syn. -- flowering wintergreen, gaywings, gay-wings, fringed polygala. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. prenom. 1. windy.
Syn. -- blustering(prenominal), blusterous, blustery, gusty. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. processing that involves blowing a gas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The blue-winged teal. See Teal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) 1. The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bending manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of preparing liquors which are brewed, as beer and ale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quantity brewed at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brewing of new beer, set by old beer. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mixing together. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am not able to avouch anything for certainty, such a brewing and sophistication of them they make. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) a species of chatterer (Bombycilla cedrorum, formerly Ampelis cedrorum) widely distributed over temperate North America, so named from its frequenting cedar trees; -- called also cedar bird, cherry bird, Canada robin, and American waxwing. It is a brownish bird about 7 inches long, between the size of a robin and a sparrow, has a crest on the head, a black face mask, and a yellow-tipped tail. The name comes from the black color of the tips of the wings, like that of a black sealing wax. They sometimes are seen in flocks. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. biting your food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.
Syn. -- chew, mastication. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Med.) The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Ægeriadæ, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The time at which cocks first crow; the early morning; the first light of day.
Syn. -- dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A fish; the goldsinny. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as bragging.
Syn. -- boastful, braggart(prenominal), bragging(prenominal), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandizing, vainglorious. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act of pulling, or attracting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master, drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine, drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing pencil, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

A drawing of tea, a small portion of tea for steeping. --
Drawing knife. See in the Vocabulary. --
Drawing paper (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water-color painting. --
Drawing slate, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; -- called also black chalk, or drawing chalk. --
Free-hand drawing, a style of drawing made without the use of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. fr. withdraw-ing-room. ] 1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Johnson ] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. 1. A woodworker`s and joiner's tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; -- called also drawshave, and drawing shave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Carp.) A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. tending to spread quickly; -- used mostly of plants. [ prenominal ] [ Narrower terms: invasive (vs. noninvasive) ]
Syn. -- aggressive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The lapwing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight. --
Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola. --
Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flowing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Flowing tendency or quality; fluency. [ R. ] W. Nichols. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Vocation; business; profession. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The four principal directions in the field of a telescope are north, south, following, preceding. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Aëronautics) See Advancing-edge, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Aëronautics) See Advancing-surface, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. With foreknowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having large and strong or complete wings. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ready for flight; eager. [ Archaic ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A common trailing perennial milkwort (Polygala paucifolia) of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.
Syn. -- flowering wintergreen, gaywings, bird-on-the-wing, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The art and process of creating glass objects, by shaping glass when reduced by heat to a viscid state, using various manipulations with the hands, especially by inflating it by blowing through a tube. The process is used to manufacture a wide variety of useful and ornamental objects. The manufacture of simple glass objects has been automated, but complex glass objects are still made by the traditional hand processes. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. softly bright or radiant.
Syn. -- aglow(predicate), lambent, luminous, lucent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. highly enthusiastic; as, glowing praise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. brilliantly colored and apparently giving off light.
Syn. -- fluorescent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. afire; as, glowing embers. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- burning. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) (a) Having a “goosewing.” (b) Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The common teal (Anas crecca) of Eurasia and North America.
Syn. -- green-winged teal, Anas crecca. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism.
Syn. -- growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. increasing in intensity of some quality. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- increasing(prenominal), incremental. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. increasing in size or amount; as, her growing popularity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. increasing in size and maturity; -- of living things normally healthy and not fully matured.
Syn. -- flourishing, thriving. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. p. pr. of grow (definition 3); as, growing plants. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. (Zool.) Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; -- said of bats. See Cheiroptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. flowing inward.
Syn. -- influent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance. [ 1913 Webster ]