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Sea Feather :: Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.

Feather :: 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..

Fledge :: Fledge (v. t. & i.) To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.

Penna :: Penna (n.) A perfect, or normal, feather..

Feathered :: Feathered (a.) Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow..

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

Spline :: Spline (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece..

Eared :: Eared (a.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.

Eye :: Eye (n.) The spots on a feather, as of peacock..

Beam :: Beam (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.

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

Pluck :: Pluck (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl..

Penguin :: Penguin (n.) Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass..

Plumicorn :: Plumicorn (n.) An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls..

Braccate :: Braccate (a.) Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

Pteryla :: Pteryla (n.) One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.

Pennatula :: Pennatula (n.) Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches..

Down :: Down (n.) The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets..

Ptenoglossa :: Ptenoglossa (n. pl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather..

Fledge :: Fledge (v. i.) Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.

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