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Water Feather-foil :: Water feather-foil () The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata..

Interscapular :: Interscapular (a.) Pertaining to the upper back, or the part between the shoulders; as, the interscapular feathers..

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) The hollow basal part of a feather.

Kingbird :: Kingbird (n.) A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show

Featherless :: Featherless (a.) Destitute of feathers.

Unbarbed :: Unbarbed (a.) Destitute of bards, or of reversed points, hairs, or plumes; as, an unbarded feather..

Pterylosis :: Pterylosis (n.) The arrangement of feathers in definite areas.

Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..

Rectrix :: Rectrix (n.) One of the quill feathers of the tail of a bird.

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

Plume :: Plume (v.) A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather..

Impennate :: Impennate (a.) Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins..

Eared :: Eared (a.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.

Auriculars :: Auriculars (n. pl.) A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds.

Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.

Plume :: Plume (v.) A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers..

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

Feathered :: Feathered (a.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog..

Barbicel :: Barbicel (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

Feathering :: Feathering (n.) The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t..

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