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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 trees3.
(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.