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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