Meaning of airling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A thoughtless, light-hearted person.
   archaic
2. A creature of the air, such as a bird, fairy, etc.
   poetic

Examples

“Some more there be, slight airlings, will be won With dogs and horses, or perhaps a whore.”

“'Airling!' John remarked, after a glance⟳ at his brother's magnificence.”

“Thee must keep⟳ quiet and not speak⟳ to strangers, or they shalt think⟳ thee is an airling.”

“This queen immortal loved the knight, And so she sent an airling brood To lead⟳ him thro ' the bosky wood Until he knew no left nor right; And as he paused upon a steep That rose from out a fountain place⟳, They sprinkled dew-drops on his face⟳, And so he fell asleep.”

“In the pointed bill, the gradually enlarging head and neck, we behold a ready means of penetrating the yelding air, the fine turned and prow-like breast, flexible and idispensable rudder, tail, the balanced and buoyant wings, the feathery investment of body, all permeated with air-cells, the hollow bones also, and the air chambers and air sacks through the organization, all communicating with the air, in which the airling floats, giving lightness to the structure⟳ as well as strength and tenacity, by a wise arrangement of parts, all bearing relation not only to each other, but to the surrounding medium in which the creature is to fly⟳, a part of it itself floating in its own⟳ element, in aeriel grandeur; how could these beautiful arrangements, with these nice adaptations, with such admirable relationships, be the work⟳ of chance?”

“Airon, an airling, jumped high and spun quickly.”

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