Feath"ered (?), a. 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. (Zoˆl.) 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.
Feath"er-edge` (?), n. 1. (Zoˆl.) The thin, new growth around the edge
of a shell, of an oyster.