Meaning of FEATHERED
| Pronunciation: | | 'fedhurd
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- [adj] adorned with feathers or plumes
- [adj] having or covered with feathers or plumage; "our feathered friends"
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| | Synonyms: | | adorned, aftershafted, decorated, featherlike, feathery, fledged, flighted(ip), pennate, plumaged, plumate, plumed, plumelike, plumose, plumy, vaned |
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| | Antonyms: | | featherless, unfeathered | | |
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| | Definition: | | \Feath"ered\, a.
1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or
wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. --Shak.
Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases
and pointed with pathetic accent. --Dr. J.
Scott.
2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed;
as, land feathered with trees.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of
certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
4. (Her.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the
feathers are of a tincture different from that of the
shaft.
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| | Related Terms: | | adorned, beaded, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, decked out, decorated, embellished, festooned, figured, flowered, garnished, jeweled, ornamented, plumed, spangled, spangly, studded, tricked out, trimmed, wreathed |
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