Definitions for the word "feather" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. t.
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v. t.
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v. t.
To tread, as a cock.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. v. i.
To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. v. i.
To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. v. i.
To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. v. i.
To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
18. n.
1 one of the structures forming a bird''s plumage, with a horny stem and fine strands. 2 (collect.) A plumage. B game-birds. v. 1 cover or line with feathers. 2 turn (an oar) edgeways through the air. feather in one''s cap a personal achievement. Feather one''s nest enrich oneself. In fine (or high) feather colloq. In good spirits. feathery adj. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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