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adjective

Feathered adj.

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." "Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent."

Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.

(Zool.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.

(Her.) Having feathers; said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.

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"Feathered" Quotes from Famous Books

... is a vulgar error, though at the same time a poetical one. It is known that nightingales do sing in the day; but their song is then less attended to or distinguished, because it forms a part only of the harmony of the feathered choir.—E.] ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr

... that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course—and in truth it was something very like it in that house. Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester

... in its palmiest days, seldom exhibited a display of more luxuriant elegance. The audience, too, so totally different from the mingled, ill-dressed, and irregular assemblage that fills a city theatre; blooming girls and showy matrons, range above range, feathered and flowered, glittering with all the family jewels, and all animated by the novelty of the scene before them, formed an exhibition which, for the night, inspired me with the idea, that (strolling excepted) the stage might not be a bad resource for a man of ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXII. - June, 1843.,Vol. LIII. • Various

... private investor would suffer; and there was I, sitting at home and sending out madly for all the papers, until my rooms were littered with copies of The Times, The Financial News, Answers, The Feathered World and Home Chat. Next day we were up to ...

— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne

... They are far from being pugnacious, but their sense of personal dignity is large, and once in a while, when the sparrows pester them beyond endurance, they assume the offensive with much spirit. There are none of our feathered guests whom I am gladder to see; the sight of them inevitably fills me with remembrances of happy vacation seasons among the hills of New Hampshire. If only they would sing on the Common as they do in those northern woods! The whole ...

— Birds in the Bush • Bradford Torrey

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