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Featherless   /fˈɛðərləs/   Listen
Featherless

adjective
1.
Having no feathers.  Synonym: unfeathered.  "The unfeathered legs of an Orpington"






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"Featherless" Quotes from Famous Books



... interruption, unless he has forgotten to lock the door; his memory and observation of afternoon teas past is stimulated by afternoon tea to come; and he is himself more like the Universal Man than on most other occasions. Featherless biped mammals that we are, what need have we in common that might conceivably provide a good and sufficient reason for the dolling up to which I am about to subject myself? Substantial food, less fleeting, however, than a lettuce or other sandwich and ...
— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren

... during the month of July; and before you see them, you will hear them. If there are young birds in the nest, all the better; take the mother bird off and the little ones will open their beaks, all mouth as they are, and go to sleep again; and they will stretch their featherless little wings; and if they are a little bit older, they will even try to move their tiny legs, as if longing to use them. As with dogs, it is the young ones that dream most. I suppose their impressions are so much more vivid, the whole world is so new to them that it rushes ...
— Over Prairie Trails • Frederick Philip Grove

... in an old washboiler that perched precariously on a fire of wood coals. This tramp was tall and spindle-legged, with reddish hair and a pale, beardless, freckled face with no chin to it and not much forehead, so that it ran out to a peak like the profile of some featherless, unpleasant sort of fowl. The skirts of an old, ragged overcoat dangled grotesquely ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb



Words linked to "Featherless" :   fledgeless, unfledged, feathered, unfeathered, plucked, unvaned



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