Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WINE-MER-CHANT, n.

A merchant who deals in wines.

WINE-PRESS, n. [wine and press.]

A place where grapes are pressed.

WING, n. [Sax. Owing; Sw. and Dan. tinge. The word signifies the side, end or extremity.]

1. The limb of a fowl by which it flies. In a few species of fowls, the wings do not enable them to fly; as is the case with the dodo, ostrich, great auk, and penguin; but in the two former, the wings assist the fowls in running.
2. The limb of an insect by which flies.
3. In botany, the side petal of a papilionaceous coral; also, an appendage of seeds, by means of which they are wafted in the air and scattered; aim, any membranous or leafy dilatation of a footstalk, or of the angles of a stem, branch or flower-stalk, or of a calyx. Martyn. Cyc.
4. Flight; passage by the wing; as, to be on the wing; to take wing.
5. Means of flying; acceleration. Fear adds wings to flight.
6. Motive or incitement of flight. Then fiery expedition be my wing. Shak.
7. The flank or extreme body or part of an army. Dryden.
8. Any side-piece. Mortimer.
9. In gardening, a side-shoot. Cyc.
10. In architecture, a side building, less than the main edifice.
11. In fortification, the longer sides of horn-works, crown-works, &c. Cyc.
12. In a fleet, the ships on the extremities, when ranged in a line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
13. In a ship, the wings are those parts of the hold and or-lop deck, which are nearest the sides.
14. In Scripture, protection; generally in the plural. Ps. lxiii. Exod. xix. On the wings of the wind, with the utmost velocity. Ps. xviii.

WING, v.t.

1. To furnish with wings; to enable to fly or to move with celerity. Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms. Pope.
2. To supply with side bodies; as, on either side well winged.
3. To transport by flight. I‚ an old turtle, Will wing me to some wither'd bough. Edge the keen sword, and wing th' unerring ball. Trumbull.
4. To wing a flight, to exert the power of flying.

WING-COWER-ING, a.

Covering the wings.

WINGED, pp.

1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying.
2. adj. Having wings; as, a winged fowl. Gen.
3. Swift; rapid; as, with winged haste. Shak.
4. Wounded; hurt.
5. In botany, furnished with longitudinal membranous appendages, as a winged stalk or stem; or with downy or hairy appendages, as winged seeds. Cyc. Winged petiole, having a thin membrane or border on each side, or dilated on the sides. Martyn. Winged leaf, a pinnate leaf; a species of compound leaf, wherein a simple leaf has several leaflets fastened to each side of it. Martyn.
6. In heraldry, represented with wings, or having wings of a different color from the body.
7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. Milton.

WING'ED-PEA, n.

A plant. Miller.

WING'-FOOT-ED, a. [wing and foot.]

Swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. Drayton.

WING'LESS, a.

Having no wings; not able to ascend of fly.

WING'LET, n.

A little wing.

WING-SHELL, n. [wing and shell.]

The shell that cover the wings of insects.

WING'Y, a.

Having wings; rapid; as, wing, speed. Addison.

WINK, n.

1. The act of closing the eyelids. I lay awake and could not sleep a wink. I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink. Donne.
2. A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast. Swift.

WINK, v.i. [Sax. wincian; D. weaken; G. teinkeri; Sw. vinka; Dan. tinker; W. gwing, a wink; t wriggle, to wink, to wince. Wink and wince are radically one word.]

1. To shut the eyes; to close the eyelids. They are not blind, but they wink. Tillotson.
2. To close and open the eyelids.
3. To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids. Wink at the footman to leave him without a plate. Swift.
4. To close the eyelids and exclude the light. Or wink as cowards and afraid. Prior.
5. To be dim; as, a winking light. Dryden. To wink at, to connive at; to seem not to see; to tolerates. to overlook, as something not perfectly agreeable; as, to wink at faults. Roscommon.

WINKER, n.

One who winks. Pope.

WINK'ING, ppr.

Shutting the eyes; shutting and opening the eyelids; hinting by closing the eye; conniving at; overlooking.

WINK'ING-LY, adv.

With the eye almost closed. Peacham.

WINNER, n. [from win.]

Ono who gains by success in competition or contest.

WIN'NING, n.

The sum won or gained by success in competition or contest.

WINNING, ppr. [from win.]

1. Gaining by success in competition or contest.
2. adj. Attracting; adapted to gain favor; charming; as, winning address.

WIN'NING-LY, adv.

In a winning manner.

WIN'NOW, v.t. [L. evanno, from vannus, a fan; D. and G. wannen; from the root of fan and wind. The Sax. has:andition, to wind.]

1. To separate and drive off the chaff from grain by means of wind. Grain is winnowed by a fan, or by a machine, or by pouring it out of a vessel in a current of air.
2. To fart; to beat as with wings. Milton.
3. To examine; to sift for the purpose of separating falsehood from truth. Winnow well this thought. Dryden.
4. To separate, as the bad from the good, Shak.

WINNOW, v.t.

To separate chaff from corn. Winnow not with every wind. Ecclus.

WINNOW-ED, pp.

Separated from the chaff by wind; sifted; examined.

WINNOW-ER, n.

One who winnows.