Find the word definition

Crossword clues for wingy

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wingy

Wingy \Wing"y\, a.

  1. Having wings; rapid.

    With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind.
    --Addison.

  2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; volatile airy.

    Those wingy mysteries in divinity.
    --Sir T. Browne.

Wiktionary
wingy

a. (context archaic English) winged, or as if winged; inclined to fly.

Usage examples of "wingy".

The later Pythagoreans and Platonists seem to have believed that the same numerical ethereal body with which the soul was at first created adhered to it inseparably during all its descents into grosser bodies, a lucid and wingy vehicle, which, purged by diet and catharms, ascends again, bearing the soul to its native seat.