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Webster 1913 Edition
Wing-footed
Wing′-footˊed
,Adj.
1.
Having wings attached to the feet;
as,
; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. wing-footed
MercuryDrayton.
2.
(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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wing-footed
WING-FOOTED
,Adj.
Definition 2024
wing-footed
wing-footed
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Alternative forms
- wingfooted
Adjective
wing-footed (comparative more wing-footed, superlative most wing-footed)
- Having wings on the feet; very fast.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
- And his wingfooted coursers him did beare / So fast away that, ere his readie speare / He could advance, he farre was gone and past […].
- 1918 W. B. Yeats, Per Amica Silentia Lunae in Mythologies, New York: Macmillan, 1959, p. 332,
- He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling, unforeseen, wing-footed wanderer.
- 1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, New York: Viking, Book XI, p. 307,
- In due time she gave birth to Autolycus, / A son of Mercury, wing-footed, as if born / With all his father's cleverness and speed, / He made white look like black and black like white.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8: