3. To transport by flight; to cause to fly. I, an old turtle, Will wing me to some withered bough. Shak.
4. To move through in flight; to fly through. There's not an arrow wings the sky But fancy turns its point to him. Moore.
5. To cut off the wings of; to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird. To wing a flight, to exert the power of flying; to fly.
WINGED
Winged, a.
1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions.
2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. [R.] How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake. J. S. Harford.
3. Swift; rapid. "Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal." Shak.
4. Wounded or hurt in the wing.
5. (Bot.)
Defn: Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.