'Feathered' definitions:
Definition of 'feathered'
From: WordNet
adjective
adjective
Having or covered with feathers; "our feathered friends" [ant: featherless, unfeathered]
Definition of 'Feathered'
From: GCIDE
- Feather \Feath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Feathering.]
- 1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. [1913 Webster]
- An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. [1913 Webster]
- A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.] [1913 Webster]
- The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours. --Loveday. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. [1913 Webster]
- They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. --Bacon. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To tread, as a cock. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- To feather one's nest, to provide for one's self especially from property belonging to another, confided to one's care; -- an expression taken from the practice of birds which collect feathers for the lining of their nests.
- To feather an oar (Naut), to turn it when it leaves the water so that the blade will be horizontal and offer the least resistance to air while reaching for another stroke.
- To tar and feather a person, to smear him with tar and cover him with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Feathered'
From: GCIDE
- Feathered \Feath"ered\, a.
- 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. [1913 Webster]
- Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. --Dr. J. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Zool.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Her.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'feathered'
From: Moby Thesaurus
Words containing 'Feathered'
- Feather,
- Feathering,
- Featherly,
- down feather,
- feathers,
- A feather in the cap,
- Cock feather,
- Contour feathers,
- Feather Sound,
- Feather alum,
- Feather bed,
- Feather driver,
- Feather duster,
- Feather flower,
- Feather grass,
- Feather maker,
- Feather moss,
- Feather ore,
- Feather shot,
- Feather spray,
- Feather star,
- Feather weight,
- Feather-few,
- Feathered shot,
- Feathering float,
- Feathering screw,
- Feathering wheel,
- Flight feathers,
- Live feathers,
- Pen feather,
- Plug and feather,
- Prince's feather,
- Sea feather,
- To be in full feather,
- To be in high feather,
- To cut a feather,
- To feather an oar,
- To ruffle the feathers of,
- Vent feather,
- Water feather,
- White feather,
- beam feather,
- contour feather,
- feather ball,
- feather boa,
- feather geranium,
- feather palm,
- feather stars,
- flag feather,
- flight feather,
- primary feather,
- princess feather,
- quill feather,
- saddle feather,
- sea feathers,
- sickle feather,
- tail feather,
- Feather Sound, FL,
- Feather-edge,
- Feather-edged,
- Feather-foil,
- Feather-head,
- Feather-headed,
- Feather-heeled,
- Feather-pated,
- Feather-veined,
- Powder-down feather,
- Red Feather Lakes,
- To feather one's nest,
- To show the white feather,
- To tar and feather a person,
- feather one's nest,
- feather reed grass,
- feather-brained,
- feathery feathered plumy,
- gay-feather,
- prince's-feather,
- tar-and-feather,
- tarred-and-feathered,
- Red Feather Lakes, CO,
- Water feather-foil,
- prince-of-wales feather