Definition of feather

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Feather (v. t.) To tread, as a cock..

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Pinniform :: Pinniform (a.) Shaped like a fin or feather.
Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga..
Penduline :: Penduline (n.) A European titmouse (Parus, / Aegithalus, pendulinus). It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers..
Tertiary :: Tertiary (n.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Featherless :: Featherless (a.) Destitute of feathers.
Flag :: Flag (n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
Capuchin :: Capuchin (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.
Endysis :: Endysis (n.) The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis..
Floccus :: Floccus (n.) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.
Casting :: Casting (n.) The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc..
Pennage :: Pennage (n.) Feathery covering; plumage.
Exoskeleton :: Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton..
Plumiped :: Plumiped (a.) Having feet covered with feathers.
Feather-head :: Feather-head (n.) A frivolous or featherbrained person.
Beplumed :: Beplumed (a.) Decked with feathers.
Pinnated :: Pinnated (a.) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.
Puff-leg :: Puff-leg (n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.
Plumous :: Plumous (a.) Having feathers or plumes.
Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird..
Sumac :: Sum (v. t.) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage..
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