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Sumac :: Sum (v. t.) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage..

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

Tawdry :: Tawdry (superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors..

Barb :: Barb (n.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather..

Fluff :: Fluff (n.) Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers..

Bird :: Bird (n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves..

Tuft :: Tuft (n.) A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers..

Moult :: Moult (v. t.) To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed..

Fletcher :: Fletcher (n.) One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows.

Remiges :: Remiges (n. pl.) The quill feathers of the wings of a bird.

Hyporadius :: Hyporadius (n.) One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather..

Scissorstail :: Scissorstail (n.) A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers..

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..

Hieroglyphic :: Hieroglyphic (a.) A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a s

Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel..

Oo :: Oo (n.) A beautiful bird (Moho nobilis) of the Hawaiian Islands. It yields the brilliant yellow feathers formerly used in making the royal robes. Called also yellow-tufted honeysucker.

Pluck :: Pluck (v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes..

White-eye :: White-eye (n.) Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit..

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

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