What is "featherless"

Usage examples of "featherless".

They lay on their sides with their thin, featherless necks and bald heads caked with dust.

This was done by securing the main body of the chicken under your right armpit like a set of bagpipes and grabbing it high up its neck with your left hand so that its featherless head is held between forefinger and thumb.

This place is far too exposed for a delicate creature like the Princess in her featherless state.

Protected by cushions of good rosy flesh or by a coating of soft down, they go rolling, staggering, dragging along their little unaccustomed feet, shaking in the air their plump hands or featherless wing.

A big, broad-shouldered man, in a suit of homespun and a featherless hat, thrust his way rudely trough the crowd and broke into the space within the belt of trees.

And when I dismounted from the wind and in the Sanhedrim my pinions were shorn, even then my ribs, my featherless wings, kept and guarded the song.

Aunt Tildy was so interested in the project of the heaven-born inventor to raise featherless turkeys that she forgot the yeast cake she had put to soak until it had been boiling merrily for some time.

Painted in a charcoal gray with no markings but a small American flag on the vertical stabilizer, the McDonnell Douglas C-17 soared above an ocean of pearl-white clouds blanketing the glaring ice of Antarctica like a giant, featherless pterodactyl over a Mesozoic landscape.

And (who knows) maybe they'll hand me a featherless biped as I leave.

Obviously taken by surprise by being attacked by this small featherless biped, the bird hopped twice—.

Ill tell you what I think a man isand by man I dont mean a featherless biped or something who just happens to have human DNA and a Y chromosome.

Nor—so attentive was she to the strange phenomenon of the sky overflooding the land—did she much hear the physical roar coming louder and louder from the east, or the awed, excited calling back and forth of the three great gray featherless fowl beneath her, or even much feel the tree shake and strain as the waters came surging around it, or hear Helen's scream.