pileated, a.
(ˈpaɪlɪeɪtɪd)
[f. as prec. + -ed.]
1. Nat. Hist. = prec.; spec. applied to certain Echini or sea-urchins; also, to certain birds having the feathers of the pileum very conspicuous, as the pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) of N. America, the male of which has a scarlet pileum.
| a 1728 Woodward Fossils ii. (1729) 70 A pileated Echinus, taken up, with different Shells of several kinds. 1749 Phil. Trans. XLVI. 146, I have seen some Specimens of the common pileated and galeated Echinites. 1782 Latham Gen. Synop. Birds I. 554 Pileated Woodpecker. 1884 J. Burroughs in Century Mag. Dec. 222/2 The log-cock, or pileated woodpecker..I have never heard drum. 1928 G. M. Sutton Introd. Birds Pennsylvania 81 The call of the Pileated is a high, irregular cackle. Ibid., The food of the Pileated Woodpecker is chiefly grubs. 1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest ix. 169 Pileated jays have long, magpie-like tails of black and white... The feathers on the forehead were black, short, and plushy, and stuck up straight. 1969 R. Lowell Notebk. 1967–68 57 A large pileated bird flies up. 1971 W. Hillen Blackwater River ix. 80 A pileated woodpecker gave his jungle-like call and flashed his scarlet crest through the trees. |
2. Wearing the pileus (see pileus 1).
| 1856 W. H. Smyth Catal. Coins Dk. Northumbld. 233 Two pileated but otherwise naked men standing with spears. |