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Definition of Feather
Feath´er Pronunciation: fĕth´ẽr | n. | 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. | (Mach. & Carp.) 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. | | v. t. | 1. | To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. | | 2. | To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. | | 3. | To render light as a feather; to give wings to. | | 4. | To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. | | 5. | To tread, as a cock. | | v. i. | 1. | To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; - often with out; as, the birds are feathering out. | | 2. | To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers. | | 3. | To turn to a horizontal plane; - said of oars. | | 4. | To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. |
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