Bude light () A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil. |
Drummond light () A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime |
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. |
Floating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float |
Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid |
Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment |
Floating (a.) Not funded |
Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above. |
Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering. |
Light (n.) That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. |
Light (n.) That which furnishes, or is a source of, light, as the sun, a star, a candle, a lighthouse, etc. |
Light (n.) The time during which the light of the sun is visible |
Light (n.) The brightness of the eye or eyes. |
Light (n.) The medium through which light is admitted, as a window, or window pane |
Light (n.) Life |
Light (n.) Open view |
Light (n.) The power of perception by vision. |
Light (n.) That which illumines or makes clear to the mind |
Light (n.) Prosperity |
Light (n.) The manner in which the light strikes upon a picture |
Light (n.) Appearance due to the particular facts and circumstances presented to view |
Light (n.) One who is conspicuous or noteworthy |
Light (n.) A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame |