Definition of Featherless

1. Adjective. Having no feathers. "The unfeathered legs of an Orpington"

Exact synonyms: Unfeathered
Similar to: Plucked, Fledgeless, Unfledged, Unvaned
Antonyms: Feathered

Definition of Featherless

1. a. Destitute of feathers.

Definition of Featherless

1. Adjective. Having no feathers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Featherless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Featherless

featherfews
featherfoil
featherfoils
featherfoot
featherhead
featherheaded
featherheads
featherier
featheriest
featherily
featheriness
feathering
feathering strip
feathering strips
featherings
featherless (current term)
featherless biped
featherlessness
featherlight
featherlike
featherly
feathermaker
feathermakers
feathers
featherstitch
featherstitched
featherstitches
feathertail
feathertails
feathertop

Literary usage of Featherless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Briton, Boer and Black, Or Ten Years' Hunting, Trading and Prospecting in by Clement Handley (1906)
"... escape—An ostrich hunting party—A featherless quest—Another hunt—I bring down an ostrich—We give our party the slip—A hasty flight—Terrible hardships—I ..."

2. The Student's Common-place Book: A Cyclopedia of Illustration and Fact by Henry J. Fox (1876)
"... etc : Calvin's Insts. ¡,215, zt seq.—A creature of habit and opinions : Burke's \\ ks., iii, 191 ; ib., xvi, 117.—A featherless Biped ; Blackw. ..."

3. Socialism for Students by Joseph E. Cohen (1909)
"This definition is about as satisfactory as the old Greek's description of man—"a featherless biped." It is true that man is a featherless biped, ..."

4. A New Logic by Charles Arthur Mercier (1912)
"No A is no-B. No bird is featherless. 10. No A is not no-B. No bird is not featherless. n. ... No not-A is no-B. Birds alone are featherless. 22. ..."

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