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Definition of Outwinged
1. outwing [v] - See also: outwing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwinged
Literary usage of Outwinged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Posthumous Works of Frederic II. King of Prussia by Frederick, Thomas Holcroft (1789)
"... of the French could only be outwinged by the infantry. ... The more it fell
back on the left the more it was outwinged, by the front of the ..."
2. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"KATHERINE MILLER SONNETS CORA FABBRI ON THE DEATH OF A METAPHYSICIAN UNHAPPY
dreamer, who outwinged in flight The pleasant region of the things I love, ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Which we not knowing, and lest we should be outwinged, [we] placed those two
regiments to enlarge our right wing; this was the cause they had not at that ..."
4. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1864)
"... as he moved forwards, his left wing was kept disengaged; his right came in
contact with the enemy's left, outwinged it, and attacked it in front and ..."
5. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"ON THE DEATH OF A METAPHYSICIAN UNHAPPY dreamer, who outwinged in flight The
pleasant region of the things I love, And soared beyond the sunshine, ..."
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