wing covert (wingkuv"ert)

In ornith., any one of the small feathers which overlie or underlie the flight-feathers of the wing; a covert of the wing. See covert, n., 6 (with cut), tectrices, and first cut under wing. - Under wing coverts. See under. winged (wingd or wing'ed), a. [ Steer hither, steer your winged pines, All beaten mariners. W. Browne , Syrens' Song. There is also a little contemptible winged creature, an inhabitant of my aerial element. I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 28. 2. In her., having wings. Specifically-(a) Noting a bird when the wings are of a different tincture from the body. [Rare.] (b) Noting an object not usually having wings: as, a winged column. 3. In bot., an at., and conch., alate; alated; having a part resembling or likened to a wing: as, a winged shell or bone; a winged seed. See cuts under sphenoid, wing - shell, and wing, n., 9 (c).-4. Abounding with wings, and hence with birds; swarming with birds. [Rare.] The wing'd air dark'd with plumes. Milton , Comus, 1. 730. 5. Moving or pa ing on or as on wings; swift; rapid. IMG:content-2439.jpg:[blocks in formation] Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 2118. Come, Tamburlaine! now whet thy winged sword. Marlowe, Tamburlaine, I., ii. 3. With Fear oppre 'd, In winged Words he thus the Queen addre 'd. Congreve, Hymn to Venus. 6. Soaring; lofty; elevated; sublime. How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake, because its e ence is divine! ted to the sloping sides of the ship. of the wing; especially, a wing-quill, flight feather, or remex.