Bat's-wing (a.) Alt. of Batwing |
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. |
Sea wing () A wing shell (Avicula). |
Standard-wing (n.) A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing. |
Water feather () Alt. of Water feather-foil |
Water feather-foil () The water violet (Hottonia palustris) |
Water wing () One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current. |
Wing (n.) One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming. |
Wing (n.) Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying. |
Wing (n.) One of the two pairs of upper thoracic appendages of most hexapod insects. They are broad, fanlike organs formed of a double membrane and strengthened by chitinous veins or nervures. |
Wing (n.) One of the large pectoral fins of the flying fishes. |
Wing (n.) Passage by flying |
Wing (n.) Motive or instrument of flight |
Wing (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc. |
Wing (n.) An ornament worn on the shoulder |
Wing (n.) Any appendage resembling the wing of a bird or insect in shape or appearance. |
Wing (n.) One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming. |
Wing (n.) Any membranaceous expansion, as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara. |
Wing (n.) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower. |
Wing (n.) One of two corresponding appendages attached |
Wing (n.) A side building, less than the main edifice |
Wing (n.) The longer side of crownworks, etc., connecting them with the main work. |