Middle English Dictionary Entry
wingen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | wingen v. Also wing; p.ppl. winged, wingged, wenged(e, venged(e, venget, (error) wenyed. |
| Etymology | From wing(e n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) ?To hasten;
(b) to carve (a partridge or quail) by lifting and severing the wings;
(c) ppl. winged, provided with wings, winged; wel winged.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450(?a1370) Winner & W.(Add 31042)473 : Thou, Wastoure, I will þat þou wonn[e scholde] Þer moste waste es of wele, and wyng [þer vntill].
b
- c1475 Eg.Terms Carver in Hodgkin Proper Terms (Eg 1995)56 : Fesonde ys j haylyde; A Parteryche, Quayle: Alle thes benne wyngyde.
c
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1385 : Hym thoughte how that the wynged [vrr. venged, vengede, wenged, wengede] god Mercurie Biforn hym stood.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1249/32 : Enchauntours…fonden for to bere þese wynged scorpiouns into Ytaly.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)3a/b : Alatus: venget [Cnt: wyngged].
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)2118 : Ther myghte y seen Wynged [vr. Wenyed] wondres faste fleen…As Eolus hem blew aboute.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)11 : Angelys an ende, Wel wynged and wel horsed, hidir fle.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)21507 : Thys menstral…Was departyd evene a tweyne: ffrom the myddel vp, A man, Donward…A bryd wynged merveyllously.