a.

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1613–6.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. iv. 66. He past them o’er, quick, as … well-wing’d Shaft forth of a Parthian bowe.

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1619.  Drayton, Bar. Wars, II. xxxvi. 23. Those well-wing’d Weapons … Slip’d from the Bow-string, impotent and slacke.

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1649.  [see CANCELEER sb. b].

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