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Definition of feather

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Feather (n.) 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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Featherness :: Featherness (n.) The state or condition of being feathery.

Poultry :: Poultry (n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese..

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird..

Spear :: Spear (n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4..

Emu Wren :: Emu wren () A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers..

Graduated :: Graduated (a.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer..

Grail :: Grail (n.) One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Deplume :: Deplume (v. t.) To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

Obumbrant :: Obumbrant (a.) Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers..

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

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

Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis..

Gena :: Gena () The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.

Barbicel :: Barbicel (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

Pruning :: Pruning (n.) That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings.

Plumula :: Plumula (n.) A down feather.

Supra-axillary :: Supra-auricular (n.) A supra-auricular feather.

Piculet :: Piculet (n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers..

Braccate :: Braccate (a.) Furnished with feathers which conceal the feet.

Topknot :: Topknot (n.) A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women..