Word Meanings - FEATHERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered

Additional info about word: FEATHERED

Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted 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.

Related words: (words related to FEATHERED)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• FEATHER-FEW
  Feverfew.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• FEATHER-FOIL
  An aquatic plant , having finely divided leaves.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• ARROWY
  1. Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton. 2. Formed or moving like, or in any respect resembling, an arrow; swift; darting; piercing. "His arrowy tongue." Cowper. By the
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.