Feathered Synonyms & Definitions

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• FeatheredDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.
2. (a.) Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
3. (a.) Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.
4. (a.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
5. (imp. & p. p.) of Feather

• FeatherDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
2. (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
3. (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
4. (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
5. (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
6. (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
7. (v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
8. (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
9. (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
10. (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
11. (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
12. (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
13. (v. t.) To tread, as a cock.
14. (n.) Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
15. (v. t.) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
16. (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
17. (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.