a. [f. prec. + -ED2.]

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  1.  Empty-headed, hare-brained, silly.

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1647.  Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, 28. Many Gentlemens and Citizens estates are deplumed by their feather-headed wifes.

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1716.  Cibber, Love Makes Man, II. ii. Ah! thou hast miss’d a Man (but that he is so bewitch’d to his Study, and knows no other Mistress, than his Mind) so far above this feather-headed Puppy.

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1876.  Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., IV. liv. 106–7. Some feather-headed lady or gentleman whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them.

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1882.  H. Irving, in Macm. Mag., XLV., Feb., 305/2. It was little more than a conceited and feather-headed assumption.

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  2.  Having a feathery top. rare.

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1821.  Clare, The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems, II. 173. Sonnets, xxv. Summer.

        How sweet, when weary, dropping on a bank,
    Turning a look around on things that be!
E’en feather-headed grasses, spindling rank,
    A trembling to the breeze one loves to see.

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