Definition of Feather

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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.

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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

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Katharine Hepburn

I may have a feather duster down my pants.
Johnny Depp

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

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
Anne Rice

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
Dalton Trumbo

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.
Isabel Allende

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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