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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Feather \Feath"er\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Feathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Feathering.}]
1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing. --L'Estrange.
2. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines. --Sir W. Scott.
3. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.]
The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours. --Loveday.
4. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. --Bacon. --Dryden.
5. To tread, as a cock. --Dryden.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Feathered \Feath"ered\, adjective
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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
feathered
adjective
1: adorned with feathers or plumes [syn: {feathery}, {plumy}]
2: having or covered with feathers or plumage; "our feathered friends" [ant: {unfeathered}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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