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Zoomelanin :: Zoomelanin (n.) A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of many birds.

Jager :: "Jager (n.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua)..

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

Endysis :: Endysis (n.) The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis..

Kagu :: Kagu (n.) A singular, crested, grallatorial bird (Rhinochetos jubatus), native of New Caledonia. It is gray above, paler beneath, and the feathers of the wings and tail are handsomely barred with brown, black, and gray. It is allied to the sun bittern..

Remiges :: Remiges (n. pl.) The quill feathers of the wings of a bird.

Tappit Hen :: Tappit hen () A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head.

Feather :: Feather (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..

Horn :: Horn (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout..

Featherless :: Featherless (a.) Destitute of feathers.

Hypnum :: Hypnum (n.) The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.

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..

Flighted :: Flighted (a.) Feathered; -- said of arrows.

Vexillum :: Vexillum (n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.

Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds..

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

Plumassier :: Plumassier (n.) One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or feathers.

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

Sewel :: Sewel (n.) A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place..

Keratin :: Keratin (n.) A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal tissues, such as horn, hair, feathers, and the like. It is an insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Called also epidermose..

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