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

Indument :: Indument (n.) Plumage; feathers.

Spline :: Spline (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece..

Primary :: Primary (n.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird..

Hackle :: Hackle (n.) One of the peculiar, long, narrow feathers on the neck of fowls, most noticeable on the cock, -- often used in making artificial flies; hence, any feather so used..

Water Feather :: Water feather () Alt. of Water feather-foi.

Supraloral :: Supraloral (a.) Situated above the lores; as, the supraloral feathers of a bird..

Penniform :: Penniform (a.) Having the form of a feather or plume.

Hieroglyphic :: Hieroglyphic (a.) A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a s

Feather :: Feather (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down..

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

Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf..

Pinfeather :: Pinfeather (n.) A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin..

Eared :: Eared (a.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.

Midfeather :: Midfeather (n.) A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.

Roughleg :: Roughleg (n.) Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough-legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard..

Chaplet :: Chaplet (n.) A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

Squab :: Squab (a.) Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon..

Swanskin :: Swanskin (n.) The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.

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