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Feathered   /fˈɛðərd/   Listen
verb
Feather  v. t.  (past & past part. feathered; pres. part. feathering)  
1.
To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. "An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing."
2.
To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. "A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines."
3.
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.(R.) "The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours."
4.
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. "They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself."
5.
To tread, as a cock.
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.


Feather  v. i.  
1.
To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
2.
To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers. (Colloq.)
3.
To turn to a horizontal plane; said of oars. "The feathering oar returns the gleam." "Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately."
4.
To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. "A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground." "The ripple feathering from her bows."


adjective
Feathered  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." "Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent."
2.
Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.
3.
(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.





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"Feathered" Quotes from Famous Books



... the unobtrusive small deer of life—the snails, and beetles, and flies, and earthworms—and especially with the winged things: birds, bats, and butterflies. In the very earliest days of my islands' existence, indeed, a few stray feathered fowls of the air were driven ashore here by violent storms, at a time when vegetation had not yet begun to clothe the naked pumice and volcanic rock; but these, of course, perished for want of food, as did also a few later arrivals, ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen
... on the vowels and consonants; but a friend that was with me solved the difficulty at once, by assuring me that the French women scarce did anything else the whole day than sit and instruct their feathered pupils; and that the birds were thus distinct in their lessons ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving
... wild and sylvan notes When morn's full chorus pours Rejoicing from a thousand feathered throats, And the ...
— The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems • Kate Seymour Maclean
... "I wish you hadn't—I wish we hadn't. I know just exactly what he feels like now. He feels as if he'd like to kill you for it, and I daresay he would if you hadn't been a craven, white-feathered skulker and ...
— New Treasure Seekers - or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune • E. (Edith) Nesbit
... happened at this very moment to be emerging stealthily from the woods below the house. Slowly and deliberately he made his way toward the front till he reached a bench where he sat down under a tree to ruminate over the situation and inspect the feathered prize which he had lately acquired by certain, devious means known only to Uncle Billy. Wiping his forehead with his ragged sleeve and holding the bird up by its tied feet he regarded it with the eye of an expert, and ...
— The Littlest Rebel • Edward Peple


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