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单词 penfeathered
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pen-feathered
a. Of birds, animals, etc.: Provided with or having feathers. feathered friend: a bird (used sentimentally or ironically). Also in parasynthetic combinations, as black-feathered, hard-feathered, pen-feathered, well-feathered adjs.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [adjective]
featheredc1300
penneda1398
well-feathered1525
well-plumed1575
plumy1590
feathery1637
well-fledged1650
pennigerous1656
plumigerous1656
penniferous1722
flighted1735
plumaged1777
fledgy1818
plumulose1826
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > with other specific coverings
featheredc1300
overskail1508
briereda1554
stone-faced1632
sodded1652
netted1800
foamed1820
fibre-faceda1884
the world > animals > birds > [noun] > bird
fowlOE
bird?c1225
wing1601
feathera1616
feather-monger1767
feathered friend1933
c1150 Eadwine's Psalter (E.E.T.S.) lxxvii. 27 Fuglæs gefeðerede.]
c1300 K. Alis. 5406 Hy weren blake fethered on the wombe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15991 Þe cok lepe vp..Federd fayrer þan be-forn.
a1440 Found. St. Bartholomew's i. vi The vision of the federyd beiste.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 163 I wyll not refuse to shewe you somwhat also of my feathered cattell.
1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 131 See that he [the cock] be sound, hard feather'd.
a1721 M. Prior Turtle & Sparrow (1723) 263 My children then were just pen-feather'd.
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 85 Thus have I remark'd what is most observable in the feathered Tribe.
1769 J. Wallis Nat. Hist. Northumberland I. ix. 311 The young being surprized..when they are near full feathered.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 242 The legs are..feathered to the feet.
1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist vii. 105 A feathered wanderer flew by.
1933 E. A. Robertson Ordinary Families xiv. 294 I did not write one letter about ‘our feathered friends’ which was not published.
1953 E. Simon Past Masters i. iii. 35 We keep chickens..and so far our feathered friends are letting us down badly.
1967 Guardian 4 Feb. 14/8 The British farmers'..war against our furred and feathered friends might be an enormous mistake.
in extended use.1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 49 One of the supporting cliffs..was in deep shade, but the other, feathered with foliage.1851 H. Mayo On Truths Pop. Superstit. (ed. 2) 25 An abrupt craggy ridge, feathered with underwood.
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