Definitions for: Feathered


[adj] adorned with feathers or plumes
[adj] having or covered with feathers or plumage; "our feathered friends"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

Synonyms: adorned, aftershafted, decorated, featherlike, feathery, fledged, flighted(ip), pennate, plumaged, plumate, plumed, plumelike, plumose, plumy, vaned

Antonyms: featherless, unfeathered

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