Word Finder - feather

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A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.

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Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.

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One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

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A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

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Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").

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One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.

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The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

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Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.

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(in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).

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To cover or furnish with feathers.

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To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

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The stylist feathered my hair.

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To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.

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To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.

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After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine’s propeller.

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To finely shave or bevel an edge.

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To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.

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To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.

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To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

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To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

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To tread, as a cock.

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To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim

I was light as a feather back then.

The feather mattress held her like a soft cloud.

She was light as a feather and moved freely with him.

The ivory and feather caravans from Wadai and Borku have latterly deserted it altogether.

Such a feather was brought to the Great Khan, and we read also of a gigantic stump of a roc's quill being prayer and simple contact.

Its manufactures include coarse cloth, pottery and Indian feather ornaments.

Unique Floral, feather, and beaded handbags for weddings and special occasions.

Any sound (such as that of the human voice) transmitting its rays into the reflector, and communicating vibratory motion to the membrane, will cause the feather to trace a sinuous line on the paper.

Thus in a Venetian story the ingenious Beppo ties up Death in a bag and keeps him there for eighteen months; there is general rejoicing; nobody dies, and the doctors are in high feather.

In favourable localities and with judicious management these establishments yield very considerable profit (see Feather).

Many species of humming-birds are found even far up in the mountains, and great numbers of parrots, araras and toucans, beautiful of feather but harsh of voice, enliven the forests of the lowlands.

This section contains a selection of smaller feather combs and feather headbands.

Himalayan balsam, New Zealand pigmy weed and parrots feather.

We're going to enjoy pouting in baby doll nighties and ostrich feather mules while we catalog them.

Exeter Ship Canal Two alien weeds, parrots feather and floating marsh pennywort, have invaded Exeter Ship Canal.

This figure also holds a feather quill (pen) in contrast to the sword held by the figure of Steam.

With the handmade feather quill, Honey Dust can be gently spread over the body of your partner or yourself.

Feather follicles in the skin are the only site of virus replication.

Brown Feather seemed to belong to a long line of idiots savants from a Native American background.

These are also available in a number of cladding options such as tongue and grooved shiplap, feather edge and full 22mm boards.

Yonex feather shuttlecocks will be used throughout the tournament.

Each boxed set contains a feather tickler, a pot of lickable body dust and twelve cards designed to give naughty inspiration.

This food is also ideal for sponges, tunicates, feather duster worms and many other organisms.

Dressed all over in black velveteen with a black cap sporting a gorgeous green feather on his curly brown hair.

Soft as a feather, the almost transparent black voile floats gently to the ground when tossed with unbridled passion into the air!

But there came a day when he showed the white feather.

By giving him a Red Button, or button of the highest rank, a Peacock's Feather, the order of the Double Dragon, a patent of nobility to his ancestors for three generations, and the title of Junior Guardian of the heir apparent, the Chinese showed their appreciation of his manifold and great services; while under the seal of the British government there were bestowed upon him the orders of C.M.G.

Nitzsch's work on feathers has been carried farther by many later observers, and its value is now generally accepted (see Feather).

The song and the hat named after him (the latter a broad slouch hat with a feather) became famous as the symbols of the middle-classes in revolt.

A woman with an unweaned baby, an old woman, and a healthy German girl with bright red cheeks were sitting on some feather beds.

Since the arrest at Bond's, Fitzgerald had been in hiding, latterly at the house of one Murphy, a feather dealer, in Thomas Street, Dublin.

The arrangement is, in fact, a modification of the plug and feather system used in stone quarrying for obtaining large blocks, but with the substitution of the powerful rending force of the hydraulic press for handpower in driving up the wedges.

In the old times birds were protected by the native belief that divine messages were conveyed by bird cries, and by royal edict forbidding the killing of species furnishing the material for feather cloaks, contributions towards which were long almost the only taxes paid.

Thus the downfall of the monarchy and of the ancient cults have been nearly fatal to some of the more beautiful birds; feather ornaments, formerly worn only by nobles, came to be a common decoration; and many species (for example the Hawaiian gallinule, Gallinula sandwicensis, which, because of its crimson frontal plate and bill, was said by the natives to have played the part of Prometheus, burning its head with fire stolen from the gods and bestowed on mortals) have been nearly destroyed by the mongoose, or have been driven from their lowland homes to the mountains, such being the fate of the mamo, mentioned above, and of the Sandwich Island goose (Bernicla sandwicensis), which is here a remarkable example of adaptation, as its present habitat is quite arid.

These locks were braided with bright ribbons or ornamented with a feather.

Those who first got possession of the rich bars on the American, Yuba, Feather, Stanislaus and the other smaller streams in the heart of the gold region, made sometimes from $r to $5000 a day; but after one rich spot was worked out it might be days or weeks before another was found.

The publicity given to this event renewed the scandal, and in November an attempt to "tar and feather" Mr Pigott resulted in two men being sent to prison.

The market buildings, at the south-east corner of the square, and partly excavated from the sides of the cliff, contain large halls for the fruit, wool and feather markets and the museum.

That this shape is intimately associated with flight is apparent from the fact that the rowing feathers of the wing of the bird are every one of them distinctly spiral in their nature; in fact, one entire rowing feather is equivalent - morphologically and physiologically - to one entire insect wing.

The breast is of a pale salmon or peach-blossom colour, each feather in front bearing a roundish dark spot, but these spots lessen in number and size lower down, and the warm tint passes into white on the belly.

They stand on short stout legs, with a plentiful covering - sometimes too abundant - of long hair extending chiefly down the back but also round the front of the limbs from knees and hocks, and when in full feather obscuring nearly the whole of the hoofs.

This pecking, combined with feather loss from rubbing against the cage bars, can result in almost totally bald birds.

Examples include mink, signal crayfish, common carp and plants such a Himalayan balsam, New Zealand pigmy weed and parrots feather.

The actions were brilliant with the roads being blocked by ' fallen ' trees, burning barricades and samba dancers waving feather dusters.

Such birds are listed under psittacine beak and feather disease in Table 1 printed in Part I.

The spiders and I have a truce, but if their webs become too blatant I start wielding my feather duster with a vengeance!

We have an excuse to wear feather boas all weekend then.

Why would breast cancer survivors don feather boas, blow bubbles and dance around the room to their favorite music laughing as they go?

From fabric to feather boas, children's toys to cutlery this store stocks the lot.

To the crowd's disgust, it was actually Chuck Sherman who made his way down the aisle, complete with purple feather boa.