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unˈfeathered, a.
[un-1 9. Cf. OE. unᵹefeðered, MDu. ongevedert, G. ungefiedert, † -federt, older Da. ufedret, Sw. ofjädrad.]
1. Not provided or covered with feathers:
a. Of birds, etc.
1570Levins Manip. 50 Vnfethered, implumis. 1605A. Willet Hexapla Gen. Ded., I..haue brought forth my implumed and vnfeathered birds. 1653Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. Ep. Ded., They are like callow and unfeathered birds. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 745 Whose Nest some prying Churl had found, and thence, By Stealth, convey'd th' unfeather'd Innocence. 1780Cowper Sparrows in Trin. Coll. 14 In hope of crumbs, Which kindly giv'n, may serve with food Convenient their unfeather'd brood. 1826S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 83 A roughness which is compared to the skin of an unfeathered goose. 1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 86 Feathered Tracts and Unfeathered Spaces.
b. Applied generically to man.
c1600Timon v. iv. (1842) 86 A peripatetick is a two legd liuing creature, gressible, unfeathered. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. i. 170 And all to leaue what with his Toil he won To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a Son. 1754Warburton Bolingbroke's Philos. i. 36 Ribaldry and ill language disgrace the animal implume bipes, the two-leg'd unfeathered Philosopher. 1817Bentham Parl. Reform Introd. 213 The speeches of so many unfeathered bipeds. 1895Atlantic Monthly LXXVI. 141/2 Such tastes..have been known among the unfeathered tribes.
2. Of arrows: Not fitted with feathers.
1611Cotgr., Materas desempenné,..an vnfeathered quarrell. 1790Cook's Voy. I. 75 But..kneeling down, [he] shot an arrow, unfeathered (as they all are), near the sixth part of a mile. 1837Lytton Athens II. 122 Lycians with mantles of goat skin and unfeathered arrows of reed. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. (Low) iv. 103 The unfeathered arrows represent winds. |