meaning of feather
1. One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
2. Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
3. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
4. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
5. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
6. 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.
7. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
8. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
9. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
10. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
11. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
12. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
13. To tread, as a cock.
14. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
15. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
16. To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
17. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
Related Words
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