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.
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.