What does Feathered mean?

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feath·ered

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. feathery, feathered, plumyadjective

    adorned with feathers or plumes

  2. featheredadjective

    having or covered with feathers

    "our feathered friends"

Wiktionary

  1. featheredadjective

    covered with feathers

  2. featheredadjective

    having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion

  3. featheredadjective

    of a finely bevelled edge

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Featheredadjective

    Etymology: from feather.

    I saw young Harry with his beaver on,
    His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm’d,
    Rise from the ground like feather’d Mercury. William Shakespeare, H. IV.

    So when the new-born phœnix first is seen,
    Her feather’d subjects all adore their queen. Dryden.

    Dark’ning the sky, they hover o’er, and shroud
    The wanton sailors with a feather’d cloud. Matthew Prior.

    Then ships of uncouth form shall stem the tide,
    And feather’d people crowd my wealthy side. Alexander Pope.

    Vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys perch upon the middle arches. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 159.

    An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow, feather’d from her own wing. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.

    Not the bow they bend, nor boast the skill
    To give the feather’d arrow wings to kill. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

ChatGPT

  1. feathered

    Feathered refers to the state of being covered with feathers, which are the flat appendages forming the plumage of a bird and consisting of a partly hollow horny shaft fringed with vanes of barbs. It could also mean having or resembling feathers, or having a fringe, edges or lines that looks like feathers, generally used in the context of art, design or hairstyles. Furthermore, in the context of rowing, "feathered" means turning the blade of the oar horizontally as it comes out of the water to reduce wind resistance.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Feathered

    of Feather

  2. Featheredadjective

    clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow

  3. Featheredadjective

    furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees

  4. Featheredadjective

    having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog

  5. Featheredadjective

    having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Feathered in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Feathered in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Feathered in a Sentence

  1. Rachel Johnson:

    My brother is using words like' surrender' and' capitulation' as if the people standing in the way of the blessed will of the people, as defined by the 17.4 million votes in 2016, should be hung, drawn, quartered, tarred, and feathered, i think that is highly reprehensible.

  2. Eric Burhop:

    In this McCarthyist era, people got tarred and feathered for being members of the( Communist) party, does that necessarily make them spies ? the only place you can find( definitive) evidence for these people being spies is either they've admitted to it or in the Soviet archives.

  3. Aesop:

    The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

  4. Paleontologist Xu Xing:

    A scaled animal looks cooler than a furry or feathered animal. They (film directors) want dinosaurs to be cold-blooded killing machines.

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