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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wing v. t. [imp. & p. p. Winged p. pr. & vb. n. Winging.]
 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, whose puissance on either side
 Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.   --Shak.
 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 or to wound in the wing; to disable a wing of; as, to wing a bird; also, [fig.] to wound the arm of a person.
 To wing a flight, to exert the power of flying; to fly.