Word Meanings - SCALY-WINGED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Scale-winged.

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• WINGY
  1. Having wings; rapid. With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind. Addison.
• SCALENE
  A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
• WINGFISH
  A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• SCALE
  1. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. 2. Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. Specifically: A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip
• SCALEBEAM
  1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. 2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
• WINGLET
  A bastard wing, or alula. (more info) 1. A little wing; a very small wing.
• SCALENOHEDRON
  A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
• WINGMANSHIP
  Power or skill in flying. Duke of Argyll.
• SCALER
  One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
• SCALED
  Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove. Scaled dove , any American dove of the genus Scardafella. Its colored feather tips resemble scales. (more info) 1. Covered with scales,
• SCALELESS
  Destitute of scales.
• WING-LEAVED
  Having pinnate or pinnately divided leaves.
• WING-FOOTED
  1. Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. Drayton. Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike
• WINGLESS
  Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly. Wingless bird , the apteryx.
• WING-HANDED
  Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
• WING
  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,
• SCALE-WINGED
  Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the lepidoptera; scaly-winged.
• WING-SHELL
  Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing. Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus. Any pteropod shell.
• SCALEBACK
  Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidæ, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chætopoda.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• TWINGE
  OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. þün to press, OHG. duhen, and probably
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• ZWINGLIAN
  Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli , the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• OVERWING
  To outflank. Milton.
• WHITEWING
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• SPUR-WINGED
  Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. Spur-winged goose , any one of several species of long-legged African geese of the genus Plectropterus and allied genera, having a strong spur on the bend of the wing, as the Gambo goose and
• KNOWING
  1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.
• INGROWING
  Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance. Ingrowing nail, one whose edges are becoming imbedded in the adjacent flesh.
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• SWINGE
  See SPENSER
• SWINGLE
  1. To dangle; to wave hanging. Johnson. 2. To swing for pleasure.