eagledadj.
/ˈiːɡld/, U.S. /ˈiɡəld/ 1. Resembling that of an eagle; eagle-like. Now rare.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [adjective] > of or belonging to eagle
eagled?1585
eagle-like1594
eagly1628
aquiline1656
?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. N3 This ioly fellow and big man, a silly wodcock, freshly painted out in Eagled feathers..coulde not long indure.
1624 S. Jerome Irelands Iubilee Ep. Ded. sig. (*)3v With the Eagled eye of his farre famoused wisedome, ever vigilant.
1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 115 Souldiers haue the start of Scholars in their Eagled strength.
1790 Harris's List Covent-Garden Ladies 121 Her eyes are dark, with that eagled keenness, which usually attends that coloured eye.
1949 G. Barker in Poetry 74 134 In his schoolroom the fooling Truth ogles a mirror and forgets that eagled head.
2004 Africa News (Nexis) 9 Jan. They are closely being watched with an eagled eye every minute.
2. Bearing a representation of an eagle.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [adjective] > specific
eagled1619
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 442 Hee carried vpon his owne shoulders the eagled ensigne [L. aquilam] into the campe.
1785 tr. L. Pignotti Robert Manners 23 Her own eagled ensigns, and the Pilum Contending mingled in the fields of death.
1834 ‘F. Fag’ Recess 144 How would Catherine exult, on learning that her eagled banners waved from the heights of the Balkan to the shores of the Bosphorus!
1898 F. Lees tr. P. Margueritte & V. Margueritte Disaster vi. iv. 386 Their gaiters and straps were pipeclayed, and their eagled buttons shone.
1917 V. Sackville-West Poems of West & East 25 We have known Byzantium's glory when the eagled flag was flown.
1980 G. Ivan Smith Ghosts of Kampala 189 It bore the eagled crest of Libya.
1991 Times 19 Aug. 8/7 The eagled banner, under which Germany marched into the first world war.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.?1585- to do one's easter
- to do one's endeavour(s
- to do one's face
- to do one's fair share
- to do one's filthhead
- to do one's fine
- to do one's force
- to do one's homework
- to do one's honour to
- to do one's kind
- to do one's labour
- to do one's main
- to do one's manners
- to do one's merchandise
- to do one's might
- to do one's nana
- to do one's nature
- to do one's needs
- to do one's nicety
- to do one's number
- to do one's nut
- to do one's occasionally the nut
- to do one's outmost
- to do one's own thing
- to do one's penance