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4. the foreclzm of a bird, bat, or other vertebrate animal (homologous with the human arm), fitted in any way for flight or aerial locomoticn, or even, sometimes, when net so fitted; also, a stmzlar appendage in insects, having a similar function: sometimes used frguratzvly. ample wing, see ample. angle of the wing, the carpal angle of a bird’s wing; the bend of the wing; the bend; the flexure. anterior wing, (in entomology) one of the front upper wings of an insect which has two pairs of wings; a fore wing; a mesothoracic wing; a superior wing. archt wing, a wing having an archt form; a bowzshaped wing. bastard wing, the winglet or alula of a bird’s wing; the spurious wing; the ala spuria. convoluted wings, (rn entomology) wings which rin repose embrace the body of the insect from above downward, inclosing it as in a tube. deflexed wings, (in entomology) wings which in repose cover the body of the insect like a roof, the mnternal edges of the primaries meeting, and the surfaces sloping down en both sides, as in many meths and homepters. dentate wing, a wing with dentate or tootht margin; a wing with a notcht edge. digitate wing, (in entomology) a wing divided into finger like radii, as 1n many pteroferzdae, by incisions extending from the margin of the wing, between the veins or nervures, toward the base. divergent wings, (in entomology) wings which in repose are herzzental but spied apart receding from the abdomen, as rn many flies. erect wings (in entomology) wings which in repose are held erect or upright over the body when the insect rests, as in most butterflies; vertrcal wings. expanse of wing, the expanse, extent, or spied of wing; the tipztoztrp me sure ment of the extended wings; stretch of wing; alar expanse; alar extent; wing-spied (sense 1). extent of wing, the extent or expanse of wing; wing: spied. false wing, the alula of a bird’s wing; the bastard wing; the ala spuria. fixing of the wing, a fixing or rrgidity of the wing or wings of a wounded bird, due to nervous shock.; flexure of the wing, the carpal angle of a bird’s wing; the bend of the wing; the flexure or bend. folded wings, same meaning as plicate wings. inferior wing, (an entomology) a pester i or or hind wing of an insect: so cald because it folds under the anterior wing. length of wing, the shertest distance from the flexure or — carpal angle of a bird’s wing to the wing-tip or point of — the wing. lining of the wing, the under set of wing-coverts, which lines the wing of a bird; the rnferior tectyices. little wing, the small dacariced. of fethers which grow upon a bird’s thum. make wing, take wing, take flight; fly; depart. mesothoracic wing, (ain entomology) one of the pair of wings borne en the mesothorax or middle division of the thorax of an insect; one of the first pair of wings; an anterior or upper wing; a fore-wing; a superior wing. metathoracic wing, (1n entomology) one of the pair of wings borne on the metathorax or third dxrvision of the thorax of an insect; one of the second pair of wings; a pester i or or lower wing; a bind-wing; an inferior wing. mirror of a wing, a specially colord area on some of the flightefethers of a bird’s wing; the speculum. on the wing, (adjectivally) being upon the wing or in flight; traveling: as, a hunter of birds *en the wing; (adverbially) while upon the wing or in flight; while moving or traveling thru the air. on the wings of the wind, aloft, or in the air, borne along by the wind considerd as a winged creature in flight. petiolate wing, (tn entomology) an insect-wing with a petioled like stalk or base; a wing in which the base is very narrow and has parallel sides, suddenly enlarging to the body of the wing, as in the genus Agrion. plane wings, (in entomology) wings which in repose are extended herzzentally, or in a herzzental plane. plicate wings, (in entomology) wings which in repose are doubled or folded lengthwise one or more times; folded wings. point of the wing, the extyeme end of a bird’s wing; the eas woe body, of a flying-machine; one of the supporting aeroferls or planes of a biplane or multiplane flyer. continuous wing, a wing or supporting-plane which is continuous or which presents a single uninterrupted surface to the air; a sustaining-surface which consists of but one aerofeil and is net of two or more separate wings: contrast separated wings. flapping wing, a wing which flaps, moves up and down, sways, or beats; a reciprocating wing. oscillating wing, a wing which escillates, swings, vibrates, or moves to and fro, or up and down. reciprocating wing, a wing which recrprocates, waves, flaps, moves to and fro, or has an alternatrng movement; a flapping wing. rocking wing, a wing which rocks or is capable of an oscillatory movement, as 1n some me no plane flyxzngzmachines, for purposes of lateral balancing. rotating wing, a wing which rotates, revelvs, moves round a center or axis, or has a circular motion like that of a screw-propeller blade. separated wings, wings or supporting-planes which, tho disposed in appreximately the same geometric plane, are separated by a cart a in space, as 1n a tandem mono plan:; sustaining-surfaces consisting of distinct or discontinuous aeroferls placed one after the other with some space between. contrast continuous wing. spread of wing, the surfaces me sure ment or area of the wings of a flyer; wing-area; wing-zspred (sense 2). vibrating wing, a wing that swings, escrilates, or moves to and fro; an oscillating wing. waving wing, a wing that waves, undulates, fluctuates, or sways up and down or to and fro.