FEATHER
\fˈɛðə], \fˈɛðə], \f_ˈɛ_ð_ə]\
Definitions of FEATHER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
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turn the paddle; in canoeing
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cover or fit with feathers
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grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already"
By Princeton University
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turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
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turn the paddle; in canoeing
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cover or fit with feathers
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
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A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
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One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
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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.
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A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
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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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To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
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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 have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
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Kind; nature; species; - from the proverbial phrase, Birds of a feather, that is, of the same species.
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To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; - often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
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To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers
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To turn to a horizontal plane; - said of oars.
By Oddity Software
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The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
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A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
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One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
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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.
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A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
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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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To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
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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 have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
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Kind; nature; species; - from the proverbial phrase, Birds of a feather, that is, of the same species.
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To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; - often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
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To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers
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To turn to a horizontal plane; - said of oars.
By Noah Webster.
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Part of the outer covering of a bird; a plume; something like a feather, as, in mechanism a wedge. fin. or flange.
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To ornament with feathers; cover with, or as with, feathers; turn the blade of (an oar) horizontally when leaving the water.
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To become covered with feathers.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One of the growths which form the covering of a bird; a feather-like ornament.
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To furnish or adorn with feathers.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Greek, Latin] One of the growths, generally formed of a central quill and a vane on each side of it, which make up the covering of a bird; a plume; something resembling a feather;—an ornament; an empty title;—species; kind; nature.
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The plume of birds; an ornament, an empty title; upon a horse, a sort of natural frizzling hair.
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To dress in feathers; to fit with feathers; to tread as a cock; to enrich, to adorn; To feather one’s nest, to get riches together.
By Thomas Sheridan
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