Feather

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