英语词汇“pen-feathered”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	pen-feathered
释义	pen-feathered, a.\|ˈpɛnˌfɛðəd\| [f. pen n.² 1 c + feathered, in the sense ‘feathered with ‘pens’ only’. Cf. the synonymous pin-feathered.] 1. Having the feathers undeveloped, or showing the quills or barrels only, without vanes (see pen-feather 2), as a young bird; half-fledged; not fully fledged; also fig. immature, ‘callow’. 1628Earle Microcosm., Aturney (Arb.) 65 His hatching [was] vnder a Lawer; whence though but pen-feather'd, hee hath now nested for himselfe.1659R. Wild Poems (1870) 36 Not a pen-feathered lark who ne'er tried wing.1708Prior Turtle & Sparrow 263 My children then were just pen-feather'd, Some little corn for them I gather'd.1858Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. I. liii. 208 The most extraordinary argument, worthy of being set down in any pen-feathered logician's list of fallacies. 2. Said of a horse or his hair when rough and bristly. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1756) I. 346 So that the Hair stare, and is (what some term) pen-feather'd.1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pen-feathered, when the skin or hair of a horse is rough, he is said to be pen-feathered. His hair is so sticky that it resembles pens or feathers.1874W. Williams Princ. Veterinary Med. (1888) 389 The hair stands on end ‘pen-feathered’.
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