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Definition of Feather

Feather One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. 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. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. To render light as a feather; to give wings to. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. To tread, as a cock. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. Related Definitions: About, Adjustment, Adorn, An, And, Angular, Another, Appear, Appearance, Are, Arrow, As, Axis, Be, Become, Belonging, Benefit, Between, Bored, But, Cap, Channel, Cock, Contour, Cream, Curdle, Dermal, Displacement, Divided, Down, Driven, Enrich, Enter, Exalt, Feather, Feathered, Feathering, Feathery, Fin, Float, Form, Fringe, Frizzly, From, Furnish, Give, Grow, Hair, Have, Hole, Horizontal, Horse, In, Into, Is, It, Kind, Leaves, Lengthwise, Liquid, Little, Long, Longitudinal, Light, Motion, Nature, Oar, Object, Of, Often, On, One, Or, Other, Out, Peculiar, Permit, Phrase, Plane, Plug, Poured, Prevent, Projecting, Proverbial, Reference, Rend, Render, Said, Same, Setter, Several, Shaft, Some, Species, Spline, Stone, Strengthen, Strip, That, The, Thereby, Thin, To, Tread, Tuft, Turn, Two, Water, Wedge, When, With

Feather Quotations Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. Maya Angelou As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. Helen Keller I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather. Javier Perez de Cuellar Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. Katharine Hepburn Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. Shania Twain

Feather Translations feather in Afrikaans is veer feather in Dutch is pluim, veer, pen, veder feather in French is plume feather in German is Feder, Feder feather in Italian is penna, piuma feather in Latin is penna feather in Portuguese is pena feather in Spanish is pluma

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