| Feat |
n. |
An act; a deed; an exploit. |
| Feat |
n. |
A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity. |
| Feat |
v. t. |
To form; to fashion. |
| Feat |
n. |
Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty. |
| Feat-bodied |
a. |
Having a feat or trim body. |
| Feateous |
a. |
Dexterous; neat. |
| 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. |
| Feather-brained/ |
a. |
Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. |
| Feather-edge/ |
n. |
The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster. |
| Feather-edge/ |
n. |
Any thin, as on a board or a razor. |
| Feather-edged/ |
a. |
Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board;
in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable. |
| Feather-few/ |
n. |
Feverfew. |
| Feather-foil |
n. |
An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves. |
| Feather-head |
n. |
A frivolous or featherbrained person. |
| Feather-headed |
a. |
Giddy; frivolous; foolish. |
| Feather-heeled |
a. |
Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome. |
| Feather-pated |
a. |
Feather-headed; frivolous. |
| Feather-veined |
a. |
Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib. |
| Featherbone |
n. |
A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys. |
| Feathered |
imp. & p. p. |
of Feather |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Feathering. |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Feather |
| Featherless |
a. |
Destitute of feathers. |
| Featherly |
a. |
Like feathers. |
| Featherness |
n. |
The state or condition of being feathery. |
| Featherstitch |
n. |
A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line. |
| Feathery |
a. |
Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. |
| Featly |
a. |
Neatly; dexterously; nimbly. |
| Featness |
n. |
Skill; adroitness. |
| Feature |
n. |
The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. |
| Feature |
n. |
The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance. |
| Feature |
n. |
The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape. |
| Feature |
n. |
A form; a shape. |
| Featured |
a. |
Shaped; fashioned. |
| Featured |
a. |
Having features; formed into features. |
| Featureless |
a. |
Having no distinct or distinctive features. |
| Featurely |
a. |
Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. |
