ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED2.]
1. Furnished with or bearing antlers: a. naturally.
1717. Vernon, trans. Ovid’s Met., VIII. (T.).
| A Fowl with spangled Plumes, a brinded Steer, | |
| Sometimes a crested Mare, or antler’d Deer. |
1870. Bryant, Homer, XI. I. 355. Like a troop Of ravening jackals round an antlered stag.
b. Adorned with stags’ horns.
1828. Scott, in Lockhart, Life (1839), IX. 227. We were surveying the antlered old hall.
2. transf. Branched as with antlers.
1870. Disraeli, Lothair, xiii. 55. Sometimes a gorsy dell and sometimes a great spread of antlered fern.
