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  • 21flying — adj 1. soaring, sailing, zooming, cruising, coasting, sweeping, skimming; gliding, planing, volplaning, sailplaning; darting, flitting, flirting, hopping; taking wing, winging, winging one s way, taking off, taking to the air; airborne, volant,… …

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  • 22wing — n 1. pinion, pennon, ala, Fr. aile; pataguim; Inf. arm. 2. appendage, attachment, sidepiece; extension, ell, addition, annex. 3. flying, flight, volitation. 4. on the wing flying, in flight, in the air. 5. under one s wing under one s protection… …

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  • 23flight — [n1] flying; journey aerial navigation, aeronautics, arrival, aviation, avigation, departure, gliding, hop, jump, mounting, navigation, shuttle, soaring, take off, transport, trip, volitation, voyage, winging; concept 224 flight [n2] fleeing;… …

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  • 24volitate —   v.i. fly about; flutter.    ♦ volitant, a. able to fly; flying.    ♦ volitation, n …

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  • 25bher-1 —     bher 1     English meaning: to bear, carry     Deutsche Übersetzung: “tragen, bringen” etc (also Leibesfrucht tragen; med. “ferri”), also “aufheben, erheben”     Grammatical information: The root bher , forms the exceptional both themat. and… …

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  • 26volitational — adjective see volitation * * * volitāˈtional adjective • • • Main Entry: ↑volitant …

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  • 27vol|i|ta|tion|al — «VOL uh TAY shuh nuhl», adjective. of or having to do with volitation or flight …

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  • 28vol|i|ta|tion — «VOL uh TAY shuhn», noun. the act or power of flight; flying: »Pigeons in circular volitation, soaring gray, flapping white and then gray agai, wheeled across the limpid, pale sky (New Yorker). ╂[< Medieval Latin volitatio, onis < Latin… …

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