Definition of feather

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Feather (v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out..

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Pinnated :: Pinnated (a.) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.
Fledge :: Fledge (v. t. & i.) To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.
Coronated :: Coronated (a.) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.
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..
Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To tread, as a cock..
Pennage :: Pennage (n.) Feathery covering; plumage.
Plumous :: Plumous (a.) Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles..
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..
Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga..
Armilla :: Armilla (n.) A ring of hair or feathers on the legs.
Turacoverdin :: Turacoverdin (n.) A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. See Turacin.
Pluck :: Pluck (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl..
Principal :: Principal (n.) The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
Bird :: Bird (n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves..
Pennigerous :: Pennigerous (a.) Bearing feathers or quills.
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
Tail :: Tail (n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
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..
Sea Feather :: Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
Pinfeathered :: Pinfeathered (a.) Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed..
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