Feathered

Definition of Feathered

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.(Zool.) 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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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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