Definitions for feather
  • Feather (n.) - One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
  • Feather (n.) - Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, \"Birds of a feather,\" that is, of the same species.
  • 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; a spline.
  • 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; to fringe.
  • Feather (v. t.) - To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
  • Feather (v. t.) - To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
  • Feather (v. t.) - To tread, as a cock.
  • Feather (v. i.) - To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
  • Feather (v. i.) - To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or \"feathers;\" as, the cream feathers
  • Feather (v. i.) - To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
  • Feather (v. i.) - To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
  • Feathered (a.) - Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
  • Feathered (a.) - Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.
  • Feathered (a.) - Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
  • Feathered (a.) - Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.
  • Feathered (imp. & p. p.) - of Feather
  • Featherer - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Featherers - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Feathering (n.) - Same as Foliation.
  • Feathering (n.) - The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.
  • Feathering (v. t.) - A covering of feathers.
  • Featherings - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Featherly (a.) - Like feathers.
  • Featherness (n.) - The state or condition of being feathery.
  • Feathers - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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