Feather :: Feather (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down..

Feather :: Feather (n.) Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, Birds of a feather, that is, of the same species..

Feather :: Feather (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

Feather :: Feather (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse..

Feather :: Feather (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

Feather :: Feather (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline..

Feather :: Feather (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone..

Feather :: Feather (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water..

Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap..

Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe..

Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To tread, as a cock..

Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out..

Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers.

Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.

Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

Feather-brained/ :: Feather-brained/ (a.) Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.

Feather-edge/ :: Feather-edge/ (n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster..

Feather-edge/ :: Feather-edge/ (n.) Any thin, as on a board or a razor..

Feather-edged/ :: Feather-edged/ (a.) Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable..

Feather-few/ :: Feather-few/ (n.) Feverfew.

Feather-foil :: Feather-foil (n.) An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves..

Feather-head :: Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person.

Feather-headed :: Feather-headed (a.) Giddy; frivolous; foolish.

Feather-heeled :: Feather-heeled (a.) Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.

Feather-pated :: Feather-pated (a.) Feather-headed; frivolous.

Feather-veined :: Feather-veined (a.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.

Feathered :: Feathered (imp. & p. p.) of Feathe.

Feathered :: Feathered (a.) Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow..

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