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Feather :: Feather (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse..

Feather-veined :: Feather-veined (a.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.

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

Hamulus :: Hamulus (n.) A hooked barbicel of a feather.

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..

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

Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. t.) To erect in a ruff, as feathers..

Feathering :: Feathering (n.) Same as Foliation.

Feathered :: Feathered (a.) Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow..

Deplumation :: Deplumation (n.) The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.

Nun :: Nun (n.) A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.

Quill :: Quill (n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather..

Puff-legged :: Puff-legged (a.) Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.

Feathered :: Feathered (imp. & p. p.) of Feathe.

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..

Moult :: Moult (v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird..

Mew :: Mew (v. t.) To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers..

Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..

Lyre Bird :: Lyre bird () Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail..

Barbicel :: Barbicel (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

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