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

Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

Feather :: Feather (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

Lamina :: Lamina (n.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather..

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..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.

Pluma :: Pluma (n.) A feather.

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

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

Radius :: Radius (n.) The barbs of a perfect feather.

Feather :: Feather (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

Pick :: Pick (v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc..

Scissors-tailed :: Scissors-tailed (a.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones..

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

Interscapulars :: Interscapulars (n. pl.) The interscapular feathers of a bird.

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..

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

Crissal :: Crissal (a.) Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers..

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

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