Feather (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. |
Feather (n.) Kind |
Feather (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs. |
Feather (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse. |
Feather (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. |
Feather (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise |
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. |
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. |
Feather (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. |
Feather (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers |
Feather (v. t.) To render light as a feather |
Feather (v. t.) To enrich |
Feather (v. t.) To tread, as a cock. |
Feather (v. i.) To grow or form feathers |
Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers |
Feather (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane |
Feather (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers |
Feather-brained/ (a.) Giddy |
Feather-edge/ (n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster. |
Feather-edge/ (n.) Any thin, as on a board or a razor. |
Feather-edged/ (a.) Having a feather-edge |
Feather-few/ (n.) Feverfew. |
Feather-foil (n.) An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves. |
Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
Feather-headed (a.) Giddy |
Feather-heeled (a.) Light-heeled |
Feather-pated (a.) Feather-headed |
Feather-veined (a.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib. |
Pillow (n.) Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing |
Pillow (n.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure |
Pillow (n.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit. |
Pillow (n.) A kind of plain, coarse fustian. |
Pillow (v. t.) To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow |
Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form. |
Water feather () Alt. of Water feather-foil |
Water feather-foil () The water violet (Hottonia palustris) |
feather feathering | turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls |
pillow fight | a child's game of fighting with pillows |
feather plume plumage | the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds |
down down feather | soft fine feathers |
sickle feather | one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster |
contour feather | feathers covering the body of an adult bird and determining its shape |
saddle hackle saddle feather | a long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl |
sea feather | corals forming featherlike colonies |
feather star comatulid | free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms, found on muddy sea bottoms |
flight feather pinion quill quill feather | any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird |
primary primary feather primary quill | one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing |
tail feather | feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird |
bed pillow | a soft pillow for use on a bed |
bolster long pillow | a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows |
case pillowcase slip pillow slip | bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow, the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase |
feather bed featherbed | a mattress stuffed with feathers |
feather boa boa | a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur |
pillow | a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person |
pillow block | a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing |
pillow lace bobbin lace | a handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins, the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins |
pillow sham | bed linen consisting of a decorative cover for a pillow |
throw pillow | a small cushion that is used for decorative purposes |
white feather | a symbol of cowardice |
pillow talk | intimate conversation between lovers (typically occurring in bed) |
prince's-feather gentleman'sane prince's-plume red amaranth purple amaranth Amaranthus cruentus Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys | tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple, seeds often used as cereal |
Jerusalem oak feather geranium Mexican tea Chenopodium botrys Atriplex mexicana | Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers, naturalized North America |
feather ball Mammillaria plumosa | a low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines, northeastern Mexico |
blazing star button snakeroot gayfeather gay-feather snakeroot | any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads |
featherfoil feather-foil | a plant of the genus Hottonia |
feather reed grass feathertop Calamagrostis acutiflora | a variety of reed grass |
feather palm | palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves |
prince's-feather princess feather kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate prince's-plume Polygonum orientale | annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers, southeastern Asia and Australia, naturalized in North America |
crape fern Prince-of-Wales fern Prince-of-Wales feather Prince-of-Wales plume Leptopteris superba Todea superba | New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks, sometimes included in genus Todea |
pillow lava | lava that hardened in rounded shapes suggestive of pillows, believed to result from underwater eruptions |
fledge feather | grow feathers, The young sparrows are fledging already |
feather square | turn the oar, while rowing |
feather square | turn the paddle, in canoeing |
tar-and-feather | smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers, done in some societies as punishment, The thief was tarred and feathered |
feather | cover or fit with feathers |
feather | join tongue and groove, in carpentry |
pillow rest | rest on or as if on a pillow, pillow your head |
feather one's nest | enrich oneself by taking advantage of one's position, The congressmen feathered his nest through his connection with big business |