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Feathered :: Feathered (a.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft..

Piculet :: Piculet (n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers..

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

Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..

Tread :: Tread (v. t.) To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.

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

Calamus :: Calamus (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.

Linnet :: Linnet (n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria)

Shed :: Shed (v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves..

Feathering :: Feathering (v. t.) A covering of feathers.

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

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

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..

Beam :: Beam (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.

Truncate :: Truncate (a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather..

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

Plumous :: Plumous (a.) Having feathers or plumes.

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

Flag :: Flag (n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc..

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..

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