Eagle-winged
(a.) Having the wings of an eagle |
Full-winged
(a.) Having large and strong or complete wings. |
Full-winged
(a.) Beady for flight |
Hand-winged
(a.) Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones |
Lace-winged
(a.) Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings |
Light-winged
(a.) Having light and active wings |
Plover
(n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds. |
Plover
(n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola) |
Sack-winged
(a.) Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing |
Scale-winged
(a.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera |
Scaly-winged
(a.) Scale-winged. |
Sea plover
() the black-bellied plover. |
Sheath-winged
(a.) Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle. |
Spur
(n.) A sparrow. |
Spur
(n.) A tern. |
Spur
(n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood. |
Spur
(n.) That which goads to action |
Spur
(n.) Something that projects |
Spur
(n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree. |
Spur
(n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc. |
Spur
(n.) A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles. |
Spur
(n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber. |
Spur
(n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam |
Spur
(n.) The short wooden buttress of a post. |
Spur
(n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage. |
Spur
(n.) Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur. |
Spur
(n.) Ergotized rye or other grain. |
Spur
(n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall. |
Spur
(n.) A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side. |
Spur
(n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed. |
Spur
(v. t.) To prick with spurs |
Spur
(v. t.) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object |
Spur
(v. t.) To put spurs on |
Spur
(v. i.) To spur on one' horse |
Spur-royal
(n.) A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. |
Spur-shell
(n.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur. |
Spur-winged
(a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. |
Winged
(imp. & p. p.) of Wing |
Winged
(a.) Furnished with wings |
Winged
(a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings |
Winged
(a.) Swift |
Winged
(a.) Wounded or hurt in the wing. |
Winged
(a.) Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants |
Winged
(a.) Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body. |
Winged
(a.) Fanned with wings |
red-winged blackbird
redwing Agelaius phoeniceus | North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings |
greenwing
green-winged teal
Anas crecca | common teal of Eurasia and North America |
bluewing
blue-winged teal
Anas discors | American teal |
| plover | any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings, closely related to the sandpipers |
piping plover
Charadrius melodus | small plover of eastern North America |
killdeer
kildeer
killdeer plover
Charadrius vociferus | American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry |
| golden plover | plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots |
lapwing
green plover
peewit pewit | large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs |
upland sandpiper
upland plover
Bartramian sandpiper
Bartramia longicauda | large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands |
stilt stiltbird longlegs
long-legs
stilt plover
Himantopus stilt | long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons |
black-winged stilt
Himantopus himantopus | stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings |
dipterous insect
two-winged insects
dipteran
dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
branch line
spur track
spur | a railway line connected to a trunk line |
spur
gad | a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward, cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on |
spur gear
spur wheel | gear wheels that mesh in the same plane |
goad
goading
prod
prodding
urging
spur
spurring | a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something, the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves |
winged pigweed
tumbleweed Cycloloma atriplicifolium | bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds |
winged everlasting
Ammobium alatum | Australian plant widely cultivated for its beautiful silvery-white blooms with bright yellow centers on long winged stems |
winged elm
wing elm
Ulmus alata | North American elm having twigs and young branches with prominent corky projections |
winged pea asparagus pea
Lotus tetragonolobus | sprawling European annual having a -winged edible pod |
winged bean
winged pea goa bean goa bean vine
Manila bean
Psophocarpus tetragonolobus | a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings, Old World tropics |
winged spindle tree
Euonymous alatus | bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings, brilliant red in autumn, northeastern Asia to central China |
| spur | tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers |
spur
spine
acantha | any sharply pointed projection |
| spur blight | a disease of raspberries |
| spur | goad with spurs, the rider spurred his horse |
| spur | equip with spurs, spur horses |
| spur | strike with a spur |
spur
goad | give heart or courage to |
| spur | incite or stimulate, The Academy was formed to spur research |
| winged | very fast, as if with wings, on winged feet |
| spur-of-the-moment | in response to an unforeseen need, a spur-of-the-moment party |
| winged | having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind, the winged feet of Mercury, |
brachypterous
short-winged | (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings |
| one-winged | having a single wing |
| slender-winged | having slender wings |
| small-winged | having small wings |
on the spur of the moment
suddenly | on impulse, without premeditation, he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment, he made up his mind suddenly |