a. [UN-1 8. Cf. Du. ongepluimd.] Not furnished with plumes or feathers.
[1598. Florio, Spennato, vnfeathered vnplumed.]
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 338. They will … kill young pigeons whiles they be calow and unplumed.
1638. Davenant, Madagascar, 3. Their Arrowes were unplum’d, Their Bowes unstrung.
1777. Potter, Æschylus, Agamemnon, 217. Like vulturs, which, their unplumed offspring lost, Whirl many a rapid flight.
1804. Europ. Mag., XLV. 413/2. Whether it was … plain or coloured, plumed or unplumed, covered or uncovered.
1871. H. King, Ovid’s Met., VI. 946. Not with their birth Those pinions came;… young Calaïs And Zethes grew unplumed.
fig. 1818. Milman, Samor, VII. 267. Had it seem’d love, her very pride had quell’d The unplum’d phantasy.
