a. Having white wings: often in specific names of birds that have the wings wholly or partly white; also fig.
1594. Selimus, K 1. White-wing’d victorie sits on our swordes.
1728. Thomson, Spring, 645. Around the Head Of Traveller, the white-wing’d Plover wheels Her sounding Flight.
1757. Dyer, Fleece, I. 157. White-winged snow, and cloud, and pearly rain.
1821. Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, I. 8. Vulture … White-winged…; some of the larger wing coverts,… white, with black ends.
1821. Campbell, Lover to Mistr., 1. If any white-winged power above My joys and griefs survey.
1872. Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2), 294. Velvet Scoter. White-winged Surf-duck.
