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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Having wings attached to the feet;

as,

wing-footed

Mercury

; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.

Drayton.

(Zool.)

(a)

Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying.

(b)

Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike swimming organs; – said of the pteropod mollusks.

Adj.

[wing and foot.] Swift; moving with rapidity; fleet.