a. [f. WHISKER sb.1 + -ED2.]
1. Having whiskers. a. Of men: see WHISKER sb.1 4.
1784. Cowper, Task, III. 768. Our forefathers—a grave whisker’d race.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb., V. vii. To have seen him … in martial array—booted to the middle—sashed to the chin—collared to the ears—whiskered to the teeth.
1840. Thackeray, Shabby-Genteel Story, vii. A tall whiskered man, who … looked like a field-marshal.
b. Of animals: see WHISKER sb.1 5; spec. as a descriptive appellation of particular species, as whiskered auk, fly-catcher, shrike, tern.
1764. Grainger, Sugar Cane, II. 62. The whiskerd vermin.
1783. Latham, Gen. Syn. Birds, II. I. 364. Whiskered Fl[ycatcher].
1788. Cowper, Death of Mrs. Throckmorton’s Bulfinch, 35. A beast … Long-back’d, long-tail’d, with whisker’d snout.
1809. Shaw, Gen. Zool., VII. 298. Whiskered Shrike.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xlvi. IV. 309. Whiskered (Mystacinum), when the upper lip is furnished with whiskers (Mystax), or bearded.
1872. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 342. Whiskered Auk…. two series … of filamentous white feathers on each side of head.
1897. R. B. Sharpe, Handbk. Birds Gt. Brit., IV. 8. The Whiskered Tern is an accidental visitor to the British Islands.
2. Formed into or constituting whiskers. rare–1.
1737. M. Green, Spleen, 761. Preferring sense, from chin that’s bare, To nonsense thron’d in whisker’d hair.
