| 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. |
