Vaned

Black-vaned against the unending white, its wings beat and beat about his head. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Feathers or "vaned feathers" cover the exterior of the bird and "down" refers to the softer feathers that grow underneath the exterior feathers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The basic design, a triple-vaned rotor atop a vertical shaft, hasn't changed much in 50 years. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Stolid and utilitarian of design, it was de'scending on four vaned lifting jets. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean (1995)

Stolid and utilitarian of design, it was de­scending on four vaned lifting jets. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean (1995)

Sometime after ten o'clock the next morning, with Lauren and Alan and Teresa in one rented car, Sam and Robin in the other, they cara vaned to Taos. ❋ White, Stephen, 1951- (1994)

The crossbar was vaned and changed position with the breeze, moving with minimal changes in wind direction or velocity. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1992)

Ramoth hovered, her wing-span greater than even Mnementh's as she vaned idly. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1968)

Mnementh rumbled approvingly as he vaned his pinions to land lightly on the grass-etched flagstones of Fax's Hold. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1968)

As yet we really have no idea " and no data " as to just how ubiquitous and vaned life may be in this galaxy; it is conceivable that life as we don't know it can evolve on any sort of a planet ... and nothing in our present knowledge of chemistry rules this out. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1966)

Through the water the Nevian commander darted along, steering his course accurately by means of his short, vaned tail. ❋ Unknown (1927)

The horizontal, flat, fish body is not so bad, even supported as it is by four, short, powerful, scaly, flat-footed legs; and terminating as it does in the weird, four-vaned tail. ❋ Unknown (1927)

Within this is a batheing roome, ye walls all wth blew and white marble – the pavement mix'd, one stone white, another black, another of ye Red vaned marble. ❋ Unknown (1888)

Another of the amber-caught specimen has barbules which appear to have the necessary characteristics to make a vaned feather, which was "probably borne by an animal capable of flight," the authors write. ❋ Unknown (2011)

When Sir William Crookes developed a four-vaned radiometer, also known as the light-mill, in 1873, it was believed that this device confirmed the existence of linear momentum carried by photons ❋ Ming Liu (2010)

Contour feathers (or vaned feathers) cover the body, wing and tail. ❋ Grace Lackey (2010)