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. |
Water feather () Alt. of Water feather-foil |
Water feather-foil () The water violet (Hottonia palustris) |