By-stroke (n.) An accidental or a slyly given stroke. |
Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil |
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. |
Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form. |
Stroke (imp.) Struck. |
Stroke (v. t.) The act of striking |
Stroke (v. t.) The result of effect of a striking |
Stroke (v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour. |
Stroke (v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something |
Stroke (v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing |
Stroke (v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition |
Stroke (v. t.) A sudden attack of disease |
Stroke (v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart. |
Stroke (v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished |
Stroke (v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke |
Stroke (v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided |
Stroke (v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar |
Stroke (v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished |
Stroke (v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion |
Stroke (v. t.) Power |
Stroke (v. t.) Appetite. |
Stroke (v. t.) To strike. |
Stroke (v. t.) To rib gently in one direction |
stroke stroking | a light touch with the hands |
feather feathering | turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls |
stroke | a single complete movement |
keystroke key stroke | the stroke of a key, one depression of a key on a keyboard, the number of keystrokes was used as a measure of work |
medal play stroke play | golf scoring by total strokes taken |
stroke shot | (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand, it took two strokes to get out of the bunker, a good shot requires good balance and tempo, he left me an almost impossible shot |
tennis stroke tennis shot | the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket |
backhand backhand stroke backhand shot | a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke |
forehand forehand stroke forehand shot | (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) |
ground stroke | a tennis return made by hitting the ball after it has bounced once |
stroke | any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing |
swimming stroke | a method of moving the arms and legs to push against the water and propel the swimmer forward |
butterfly butterfly stroke | a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down |
golf stroke golf shot swing | the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it |
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 |
feather bed featherbed | a mattress stuffed with feathers |
feather boa boa | a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur |
four-stroke engine four-stroke internalombustion engine | an internalombustion engine in which an explosive mixture is drawn into the cylinder on the first stroke and is compressed and ignited on the second stroke, work is done on the third stroke and the products of combustion are exhausted on the fourth stroke |
stroke | a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush, she applied the paint in careful strokes |
hair stroke | a very fine line in writing or printing |
solidus slash virgule diagonal stroke separatrix | a punctuation mark ( ) used to separate related items of information |
white feather | a symbol of cowardice |
accident stroke fortuity chance event | anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause, winning the lottery was a happy accident, the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck, it was due to an accident or fortuity |
throw stroke cam stroke | the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam |
stroke | a light touch |
stroke | the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew |
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 |
stroke | (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club, Nicklaus won by three strokes |
stroke apoplexy cerebrovascular accident CVA | a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain |
ischemic stroke ischaemic stroke | the most common kind of stroke, caused by an interruption in the flow of blood to the brain (as from a clot blocking a blood vessel) |
hemorrhagic stroke haemorrhagic stroke | stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in the brain |
fledge feather | grow feathers, The young sparrows are fledging already |
stroke | treat gingerly or carefully, You have to stroke the boss |