FEATHERED

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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.
a.

Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.

3.
a.

Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.

4.
a.

Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.