Bird's-mouth (n.) An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate |
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. |
Mouth (n.) The opening through which an animal receives food |
Mouth (n.) An opening affording entrance or exit |
Mouth (n.) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged |
Mouth (n.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den. |
Mouth (n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged. |
Mouth (n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged. |
Mouth (n.) The entrance into a harbor. |
Mouth (n.) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal. |
Mouth (n.) A principal speaker |
Mouth (n.) Cry |
Mouth (n.) Speech |
Mouth (n.) A wry face |
Mouth (v. t.) To take into the mouth |
Mouth (v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling |
Mouth (v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth |
Mouth (v. t.) To make mouths at. |
Mouth (v. i.) To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice |
Mouth (v. i.) To put mouth to mouth |
Mouth (v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt. |
Mouth-footed (a.) Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws. |
Mouth-made (a.) Spoken without sincerity |
feather feathering | turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls |
cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR cardiac resuscitation mouth-to-mouth resuscitation kiss of life | an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration, the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing, attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen |
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 |
harmonica mouth organ harp mouth harp | a small rectangular freeeed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole |
jew's harp jews' harp mouth bow | a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity |
mouth | the opening of a jar or bottle, the jar had a wide mouth |
mouth hole | a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth |
mouth | the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening, she wiped lipstick from her mouth |
mouth oral cavity oral fissure rima oris | the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge, he stuffed his mouth with candy |
palate roof of the mouth | the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities |
sass sassing backtalk back talk lip mouth | an impudent or insolent rejoinder, don't give me any of your sass |
white feather | a symbol of cowardice |
grapevine pipeline word of mouth | gossip spread by spoken communication, the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth |
mouth | the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water, New York is at the mouth of the Hudson |
mouth | an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge), he rode into the mouth of the canyon, they built a fire at the mouth of the cave |
mouth | a person conceived as a consumer of food, he has four mouths to feed |
mouthpiece mouth | a spokesperson (as a lawyer) |
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 |
bog rose wild pink dragon's mouth Arethusa bulbosa | a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla, Canada |
green adder's mouth Malaxis-unifolia Malaxis ophioglossoides | North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals |
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 |
Vincent's angina Vincent's infection trench mouth | an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane |
foot-and-mouth disease hoof-and-mouth disease | acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs |
xerostomia dry mouth | abnormal dryness of the mouth resulting from decreased secretion of saliva |
fledge feather | grow feathers, The young sparrows are fledging already |
lip off shoot one's mouth off | speak spontaneously and without restraint, She always shoots her mouth off and says things she later regrets |
keep quiet shut one's mouth keep one's mouth shut | refrain from divulging sensitive information, keep quiet about confidential information, Don't tell him any secrets--he cannot keep his mouth shut! |
talk speak utter mouth verbalize verbalise | express in speech, She talks a lot of nonsense, This depressed patient does not verbalize |
mouth | articulate silently, form words with the lips only, She mouthed a swear word |
rant mouth off jabber spout rabbit on rave | talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
feather square | turn the oar, while rowing |
feather square | turn the paddle, in canoeing |