alate

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This latter name I consider the correct one, for these organs unquestionably preside over alate equilibrium: they are true balancers.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James

An excellent Scholar, ifaith; has proceeded very well alate; come, we'll along with you.

From The Puritaine Widdow by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Cells more or less pyriform, alate, narrow below, bulging or ventricose upwards.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John

Winged, furnished with wings: swift: wounded in the wing: lofty, sublime: alate, abounding in wings.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various