Definition:
- (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
- (n.) Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
- (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
- (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
- (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- (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; a spline.
- (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.
- (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
- (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
- (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- (v. t.) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- (v. t.) To tread, as a cock.
- (v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
- (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
- (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
- (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
Compare feather with other words:
feather vs. weather
father vs. feather
feather vs. leather
feather vs. fur
feather vs. turacoverdin
feather vs. stifftail
entermewer vs. feather
dogvane vs. feather
feather vs. vireton
feather vs. unfeather
feather vs. unplume
feather vs. pennatula
dustbrush vs. feather
feather vs. intermediae
feather vs. maat
crissum vs. feather
barbicel vs. feather
feather vs. swanskin
feather vs. penninerved
feather vs. indument
feather vs. impennate
feather vs. size
dinosaur vs. feather
feather vs. flag
feather vs. hair
feather vs. heather
feather vs. pennate
feather vs. rachis
corniplume vs. feather
feather vs. pinfeather
coronate vs. feather
feather vs. stipula
feather vs. herl
feather vs. pinion
barbule vs. feather
aigrette vs. feather
feather vs. pennaceous
auriculars vs. feather
feather vs. plumula
feather vs. plumule
feather vs. plumulose
feather vs. plumose
feather vs. plumiped
feather vs. plumiliform
feather vs. plumigerous
feather vs. plumicorn
feather vs. quill
feather vs. harl
feather vs. mouse
bus vs. feather
feather vs. topknot
feather vs. scapular
feather vs. vexillum
feather vs. remiges
casting vs. feather
feather vs. fluff
feather vs. pinna
feather vs. pavonine
feather vs. moult
feather vs. umbilicus
feather vs. plume
feather vs. shaft
feather vs. lure
covert vs. feather
feather vs. tertiary
feather vs. pluck
feather vs. trogon
feather vs. grail
crest vs. feather
beam vs. feather
feather vs. preen
feather vs. hackle
feather vs. fledge
boa vs. feather
feather vs. principal
barb vs. feather
barrel vs. feather
feather vs. fletcher
feather vs. pluma
feather vs. vane
feather vs. integument
feather vs. feathered
blend vs. feather
bevel vs. feather
feather vs. shave
feather vs. windmill
feather vs. propeller
feather vs. streamline
feather vs. resistance
feather vs. reduce
feather vs. wind
feather vs. water
feather vs. oar
feather vs. rotate
arrange vs. feather
cover vs. feather
feather vs. feathery
feather vs. featherless
feather vs. horsefeathers
feather vs. feathering
feather vs. feathers
feather vs. wing
feather vs. flight
beplumed vs. feather
feather vs. moth
feather vs. hamulus
feather vs. tuft
feather vs. pen
bird vs. feather
down vs. feather