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Webster 1913 Edition


Feathered

Feath′ered

,
Adj.
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.
Shakespeare
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Feathered

FEATH'ERED

,

Definition 2024


feathered

feathered

English

Adjective

feathered

  1. covered with feathers
  2. (rowing) having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion
  3. (engineering, manufacturing) of a finely bevelled edge
  4. (Appalachian) badly beaten

Translations

Verb

feathered

  1. simple past tense and past participle of feather