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. Zool.
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.