Feathered
['feðəd] or ['fɛðɚd]
Definition
(adj.) having or covered with feathers; 'our feathered friends' .
Typist: Zamenhof--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Feather
(a.) Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
(a.) Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.
(a.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
(a.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.
Checker: Sandra
Examples
- Feathered species sojourned here in hiding which would have created wonder if found elsewhere. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But my little feathered children, dear lady, are only too like other children. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Around her throng her eager, plump, happy feathered vassals John is about the stables, and John must be talked to, and her mare looked at. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They are tarred and feathered and spat upon. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She could climb a tree to rob the nests of the feathered songsters of their speckled spoils. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His judges sat upon the Bench in feathered hats; but the rough red cap and tricoloured cockade was the head-dress otherwise prevailing. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In her movements, in her gaze, she reminded the beholder of the feathered creatures who lived around her home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Checker: Sandra