feathered Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb join tongue and groove, in carpentry
    feather.
  2. verb cover or fit with feathers
    feather.
  3. verb turn the paddle; in canoeing
    feather; square.
  4. verb turn the oar, while rowing
    feather; square.
  5. verb grow feathers
    feather; fledge.
    • The young sparrows are fledging already
  6. adjective satellite adorned with feathers or plumes
    plumy; feathery.
  7. adjective having or covered with feathers
    • our feathered friends

WordNet

Feath"ered adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913