featherlyadj.
Error for feathery adj.
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1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) ii. i. 41 Some feathery particle of Snowe.]
1773 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 4) Featherly, resembling feather [quoting ‘Brown’ with the reading ‘featherly’].
Hence in 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. , and some later Dicts.
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adj.1773- pennywhite
- pennywisdom
- pennywise
- pennywise and poundfoolish
- pennywise poundfoolish
- pennywisepoundfoolishness
- pennywit
- pennywort
- pennyworth
- pennyworth of land
- pennyworths
- pennyworts
- penobscot
- penobscots
- penologic
- penological
- penologies
- penologist
- penologists
- penology
- penoncel
- penoncels
- penoscrotal
- penous
- penpains