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Turacin :: Turacin (n.) A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.

Casting :: Casting (n.) The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The stem or midrib of a feather.

Bald Eagle :: Bald eagle () The white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head..

Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.

Plumule :: Plumule (n.) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.

Plumous :: Plumous (a.) Having feathers or plumes.

Swans-down :: Swans-down (n.) The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress..

Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To tread, as a cock..

Spaniel :: Spaniel (n.) One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker..

Principal :: Principal (n.) The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

Sarcel :: Sarcel (n.) One of the outer pinions or feathers of the wing of a bird, esp. of a hawk..

Supralunar :: Supraloral (n.) A supraloral feather.

Ringbird :: Ringbird (n.) The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Called also ring bunting.

Bantam :: Bantam (n.) A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java..

Intermediae :: Intermediae (n. pl.) The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices..

Scissorstail :: Scissorstail (n.) A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers..

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..

Stifle :: Stiff-tailed (a.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.

Comatula :: Comatula (n.) A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars..

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