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Apteria :: Apteria (n. pl.) Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae.

Decomposed :: Decomposed (a.) Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

Pennage :: Pennage (n.) Feathery covering; plumage.

Pith :: Pith (n.) The spongy interior substance of a feather.

Spaniel :: Spaniel (n.) One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker..

Horn :: Horn (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout..

Egret :: Egret (n.) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle..

Stovehouse :: Stove (v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers..

Tappit Hen :: Tappit hen () A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head.

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

Flag :: Flag (n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

Arrow :: Arrow (n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow..

Unfeather :: Unfeather (v. t.) To deprive of feathers; to strip.

Beplumed :: Beplumed (a.) Decked with feathers.

Starting :: Starthroat (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster.

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird..

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

Stipulaceous :: Stipula (n.) A newly sprouted feather.

Ptarmigan :: Ptarmigan (n.) Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter..

Saw-whet :: Saw-whet (n.) A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes; -- called also Acadian owl..

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