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feathered 音标拼音: [f'ɛðɚd]
a. 有羽毛的;像鸟般飞得快的 有羽毛的;像鸟般飞得快的 feathered adj 1: adorned with feathers or plumes [synonym: {feathery}, {feathered}, {plumy}] 2: having or covered with feathers; "our feathered friends" [ant: {featherless}, {unfeathered}] Feather \Feath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Feathering.}] 1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. [1913 Webster] An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] 2. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. [1913 Webster] A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 3. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.] [1913 Webster] The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours. --Loveday. [1913 Webster] 4. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. [1913 Webster] They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. --Bacon. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. To tread, as a cock. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] Feathered \Feath"ered\, a. 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. [1913 Webster] Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. --Dr. J. Scott. [1913 Webster] 2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees. [1913 Webster] 3. (Zool.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. [1913 Webster] 4. (Her.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft. [1913 Webster] 24 Moby Thesaurus words for "feathered":
adorned, beaded, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, decked out, decorated, embellished, festooned, figured, flowered, garnished, jeweled, ornamented, plumed, spangled, spangly, studded, tricked out, trimmed, wreathed
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