[f. WATTLE sb.2] Of a bird: Having wattles or a wattle; in Heraldry, having the wattles of a specified tincture distinct from that of the body. Also in parasynthetic formations, as blue-wattled, one-wattled.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, IV. iv. (Roxb.), 298/1. A demy cock with wings displaid Gules, Watled and crested, Or.
1777. Porny, Elem. Her. (ed. 3), Dict., Wattled..., sometimes used in speaking of a Cock whose Wattles or Gills are of a different Tincture, but Jollowped is better.
1782. Latham, Gen. Syn. Birds, II. I. 9. Wattled Stare. Pl. xxxvi. Wattled Starlings. Ibid. (1785), III. I. 82. Wattled Heron. Size of the Stork…. Inhabits Africa.
1788. J. White, Jrnl. Voy. N. S. Wales (1790), 144. The Wattled Bee-eater … is the size of a missel thrush, [etc.].
1809. Shaw, Gen. Zool., VII. 378. Wattled Crow. Corvus carunculatus.… Said to be a native of New Zealand.
c. 1828. Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Gloss.
1849. D. J. Browne, Amer. Poultry Yard (1855), 23. The throat of the female being covered with feathers, instead of being naked and wattled.
1854. Poultry Chron., II. 336. A Cock (wattled face) and two Hens.
1862. Wood, Illustr. Nat. Hist., II. 220. The Wattled Honey-eater, or Brush Wattle Bird of Australia.
1862. Longf., Wayside Inn, Prel. 30. The wattled cocks strut to and fro.
1875–84. R. B. Sharpe, Layard’s Birds S. Africa, 626. Grus carunculata, Gm. Wattled Crane.
1901. Wide World Mag., VIII. 150/2. The scrub is full of wild duck, blue-wattled guinea fowl, partridges [etc.].
1903. Westm. Gaz., 5 Jan., 10/1. The ‘Zoo’ has a new occupant of some importance—the Eastern one-wattled cassowary (Casuarius aurantiacus) from German New Guinea.
† b. Having folds of flesh. Obs. rare–1.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., IX. (1593), 212. I turning to the shape of bull rebelled against my fo. He stepping to my left side close, did fold his armes about My watled necke [L. induit ille toris a læva parte lacertos].
† c. Wattled oval: an oval ring with projecting knobs. (Holme gives a drawing.) Obs. rare–1.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, IV. ix. (Roxb.), 383/2. At which coller was hunge the modle of the order on a plate in a wattled ovall a Lilly slipped.
