Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered, provided, or adorned with feathers.
- adj. Having feathering, as an animal's coat.
- adj. Moving swiftly: feathered feet.
- adj. Having the chords of propeller blades parallel to the line of flight.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rivaling a bird in speed; winged.
- In entomology, having parallel rays or branches, like the web of a feather; strongly pectinate: applied to the antennæ when the joints give out long branches on one or two sides, as in many moths.
- In botany, same as feathery, 3.
- Fitted or furnished with a feather or feathers: as, a feathered arrow: used specifically in heraldry when the feathers are of a different tincture from the shaft: as, azure, feathered or.
- Fringed with hair: said of certain breeds of dogs.
Wiktionary
- adj. covered with feathers
- adj. rowing having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion
- adj. engineering, manufacturing of a finely bevelled edge
- adj. Appalachia to be badly beaten
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of feather.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings
- adj. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed.
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
- adj. (Her.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or covered with feathers
- adj. adorned with feathers or plumes
Examples
“Each back proof carries the Hawaiian Coat of Arms which includes two men in feathered cloaks and helmets flanking the shield.”
Important Hawaii Proofs in Long Beach Auction : Coin Collecting News
“(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. RODRIGUEZ: And some colleague in New York reminded me, you know, tarred and feathered is just a metaphor nowadays.”
“The four Neville Brothers first worked together backing Mardi Gras Indians for the 1976 album “The Wild Tchoupitoulas” and their set started with the Nevilles joined by current Tchoupitoulas in feathered suits, one carrying a giant sequined tomahawk.”
Jazzfest: A Neville Family Homecoming - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
“Now Ricky and Lucy, as she calls the feathered pair, live peacefully at Hidden Lake alongside numerous pets and children, she said.”
“Alabama's short-term feathered visitors left the state last week headed for wintering grounds in Florida.”
“(link) Gods-be-feathered is from the Chanur books.”
“It features fossils and models of the so-called feathered dinosaurs recently discovered in China.”
“He walked into the maze of storage shelves, past towering stacks of artifact boxes, their labels feathered by mold.”
“Her toilet made, she lighted the fire in the cracked stove, set a pot of water boiling, and went out to the doorstep, calling the feathered flock around her, stirring their meal in a great pan the while her eyes roamed about the open spaces of meadow and pasture for a sign of those who surely must trace her here.”
“Instead, a mothership lifted it to 50,000 feet where it was released and put its tail booms in the so-called "feathered" position to maximize aerodynamic drag.”
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