ppl. a. Obs. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. In various senses of the vb.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 2149. Ffacez fetteled unfaire in filterede lakes.
1567. Turberv., Ovid’s Epist., 16 b. Heavy helmet on thy head and feltred lockes to beare.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxix. (1887), 211. [Her hair is] a feltryd borough for white footed beastes.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, IV. vii. 56.
| His feltred lockes, that on his bosome fell, | |
| On rugged mountaines briers and thornes resemble. |
1787. Grose, Prov. Gloss., Falter’d, revelled, dishevelled.
2. Having matted hair or wool.
c. 1460. Emare, 538.
| Thre heddes hadde he there, | |
| A lyon, a dragon and a beere, | |
| A fowlle, feltred fende. |
1598. Chapman, Iliad, III. 219.
| Much like a well-grown bell-wether, or feltred ram, he shows, | |
| That walks before a wealthy flock of fair white-fleecéd ewes. |
b. Filthy-feltered: matted or clogged with filth.
1581. Nuce, Seneca’s Octavia, I. iv. Griesly Plutos filthie feltred denne.
