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.
(Zoöl.) 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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