Wingless: alternatives and connections

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, m…

Fit; adapted; suitable.

Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.

To go up; to ascend.

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to as…

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

of Ascend

of Ascend

To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; a…

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.

To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and ea…

To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to pl…

Alt. of Elytrum

An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up bene…

Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.