wing

1. wing (noun) — sense 1

Definition: An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.

Example: The bird was flapping its wings

2. wing (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.

3. wing (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Human arm.

4. wing (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.

5. wing (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To fly.

Example: Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

6. wing (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To travel swiftly.

Example: He had pulled up so expertly that the man escaped, so smoothly that not a passenger was jarred, and now he sat with a dazed and vacant expression on his face, leaning forward on his steering wheel, while caustic inquiry and retort winged unheeded up and down the line behind him.