ppl. a. [f. STOCKING sb. or v. + -ED.]
1. Furnished with stockings or with a stocking.
1608. Dekker, Work for Armourers (1609), F 1 b. The kerzy stockingd Whoresons.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, III. 397. Stockin’d with loads of fat Town-Dirt he goes.
1887. Stevenson, Manse, in Scribner’s Mag., I. 613/1. Nothing of this would cross the mind of the young student, as he posted up the Bridges with trim, stockinged legs.
transf. 1894. Sala, Lond. up to Date, 349. Those three slender quadrupeds, all stockinged and hooded … which are being carefully conducted to a horse-box.
2. Of the foot: Covered with a stocking only.
1862. Cornhill Mag., May, 570. She had taken her shoes off, and came in her stockinged feet up to my bedside.
1891. T. Hardy, Tess, xxxvii. He slid back the door-bar and passed out, slightly striking his stockinged toe against the edge of the door.
3. Of a bird: Feathered on the shank.
1855. Poultry Chron., III. 153. The Stomacher Pigeons … are ‘stockinged,’ or feathered to the toes with small feathers.
