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Crinet :: Crinet (n.) A very fine, hairlike feather..

Harl :: Harl (n.) A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies..

Pluck :: Pluck (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl..

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..

Truncate :: Truncate (a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather..

Flag :: Flag (n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc..

Axillars :: Axillars (n. pl.) Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing..

Garland :: Garland (n.) A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath..

Apteria :: Apteria (n. pl.) Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae.

Floccus :: Floccus (n.) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.

Filoplume :: Filoplume (n.) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe..

Crissum :: Crissum (n.) That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts..

Supra-auricular :: Supra-auricular (a.) Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds..

Sea Feather :: Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.

Plume :: Plume (v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.

Fledge :: Fledge (v. t. & i.) To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.

Feather-head :: Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person.

Feather-heeled :: Feather-heeled (a.) Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.

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..

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