Definition of feather

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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..

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Feather-head :: Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person.
Puff-legged :: Puff-legged (a.) Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.
Pappus :: Pappus (n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order..
Aplustre :: Aplustre (n.) An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather..
Plumassier :: Plumassier (n.) One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or feathers.
Plume :: Plume (v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.
Fletch :: Fletch (v. t.) To feather, as an arrow..
Indented :: Indented (a.) Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds..
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..
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..
Feathering :: Feathering (v. t.) A covering of feathers.
Beard :: Beard (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some bird.
Racket-tail :: Racket-tail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped..
Feather-edge/ :: Feather-edge/ (n.) Any thin, as on a board or a razor..
Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..
Moult :: Moult (v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird..
Eared :: Eared (a.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.
Hypnum :: Hypnum (n.) The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.
Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.
Feather-veined :: Feather-veined (a.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
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