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

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

Tawdry :: Tawdry (superl.) Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors..

Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap..

Pith :: Pith (n.) The spongy interior substance of a feather.

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

Buffel Duck :: Buffel duck () A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead..

Tuft :: Tuft (n.) A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers..

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

Feathering :: Feathering (v. t.) A covering of feathers.

Imping :: Imping (n.) The process of repairing broken feathers or a deficient wing.

Feather-edged/ :: Feather-edged/ (a.) Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable..

Aplustre :: Aplustre (n.) An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather..

Pennatula :: Pennatula (n.) Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches..

Calumet :: Calumet (n.) A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers..

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

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

Seta :: Seta (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

Mallophaga :: Mallophaga (n. pl.) An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird..

Flag :: Flag (n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

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