Winged \Winged\, a.

1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.

2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. [R.]

How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake. --J. S. Harford.

3. Swift; rapid. ``Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal.'' --Shak.

4. Wounded or hurt in the wing.

5. (Bot.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.

6. (Her.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body.

7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. ``The winged air darked with plumes.'' --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Wing \Wing\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Winged; p. pr. & vb. n. Winging.]

1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly, or to move with celerity.

Who heaves old ocean, and whowings the storms. --Pope.

Living, to wing with mirth the weary hours. --Longfellow.

2. To supply with wings or sidepieces.

The main battle, whose puissance on either side Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse. --Shak.

3. To transport by flight; to cause to fly.

I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some withered bough. --Shak.

4. To move through in flight; to fly through.

There's not an arrow wings the sky But fancy turns its point to him. --Moore.

5. To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)