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Furnished with a pappus; downy.

A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather. Wings . . . of many a colored plume. Milton.

Downy; bearing down.

Very minutely downy.

The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.

numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.

A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining. [R.] They sat, recline On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers. Milton.

resplendent; white. "Silver hair." Shak. Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bathed Their downy breast. Milton.

To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton.

A downy or feathery appendage to certain achens. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.

The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

iff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.

mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent layers.

Any one of certain plants whose soft, downy leaves have been used for dressing wounds, as the kidney vetch, and several species of the labiate genus Stachys.