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Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf..

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

Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

Feather-brained/ :: Feather-brained/ (a.) Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.

Fin :: Fin (n.) A feather; a spline.

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

Radius :: Radius (n.) The barbs of a perfect feather.

Panache :: Panache (n.) A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers..

Calumet :: Calumet (n.) A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers..

Graduated :: Graduated (a.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer..

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

Cirrous :: Cirrous (a.) Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.

Plumassier :: Plumassier (n.) One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or feathers.

Imp :: Imp (n.) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line..

Bird :: Bird (n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2)..

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..

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..

Feather :: Feather (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone..

Aigrette :: Aigrette (n.) A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc..

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

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