feather

1. n. One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. Source: opted

2. n. Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species. Source: opted

3. n. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs. Source: opted

4. n. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse. Source: opted

5. n. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. Source: opted

6. n. A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline. Source: opted

7. n. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. Source: opted

8. n. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water. Source: opted

9. v. t. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. Source: opted

10. v. t. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. Source: opted

11. v. t. To render light as a feather; to give wings to. Source: opted

12. v. t. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. Source: opted

13. v. t. To tread, as a cock. Source: opted

14. v. i. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out. Source: opted

15. v. i. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers Source: opted

16. v. i. To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars. Source: opted

17. v. i. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. Source: opted

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