Word Meanings - SCALE-WINGED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the lepidoptera; scaly-winged.

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• WINGY
  1. Having wings; rapid. With wingy speed outstrip the eastern wind. Addison.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• WINGFISH
  A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• SCALY
  Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem. Scaly ant-eater , the pangolin. (more info) 1. Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish. "Scaly crocodile." Milton. 2. Resembling scales,
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• WINGLET
  A bastard wing, or alula. (more info) 1. A little wing; a very small wing.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• TWINGE
  OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. þvinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. þün to press, OHG. duhen, and probably
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• ZWINGLIAN
  Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli , the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• SWINGDEVIL
  The European swift.
• OVERWING
  To outflank. Milton.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.