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English
Etymology
From be- (“on, upon, unto”) + wing.
Pronunciation
Verb
bewing (third-person singular simple present bewings, present participle bewinging, simple past and past participle bewinged)
- To furnish or equip with wings.
1920, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 126, page 819:Such changes may be rung on night-thoughts; but what is any moment of leisure, ennui, or enforced waiting but the chance to bewing leaden time? No load of circumstance can weigh down the mind gifted with levitation; 'no calm so dead that your lungs cannot ruffle it with a breeze.
1922, Chronicle, volume 24, University of California, page 228:With the imperious persuasiveness of a creator he breathes life into earth's "wrinkles of thought"— its rocks and hills, gorges and canyons, he instils a throb into his trees and huts, churches and towers, ramparts and vessels, he bewings his clouds and shapes them into knights and dragons and messengers, he bestows a rhythm of vitality upon his rivers and seas and creatures under the sea, he brings down the moon and stars in a choral dance, down to where we can reach and pluck them, and thus fulfil the dream every one of us dreamed in his childhood.
1931, Martha Foley, Story - Volume 1 - Page 61:"Saint, take me to the Louvre on a litter. I want to slap Mona Lisa. An axe. I want to behead, bebreast, beleg the Venus of Milo. I want to bewing the Winged. [...]"
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