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- English Word Feather Definition 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.
- English Word Feather Definition A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
- English Word Feather Definition The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- English Word Feather Definition To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
- English Word Feather Definition To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
- English Word Feather Definition To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- English Word Feather Definition To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- English Word Feather Definition To tread, as a cock.
- English Word Feather Definition To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
- English Word Feather Definition To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
- English Word Feather Definition To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
- English Word Feather Definition To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
- English Word Feather-brained/ Definition Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.
- English Word Feather-edge/ Definition The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.
- English Word Feather-edge/ Definition Any thin, as on a board or a razor.
- English Word Feather-edged/ Definition 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.
- English Word Feather-few/ Definition Feverfew.
- English Word Feather-foil Definition An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.
- English Word Feather-head Definition A frivolous or featherbrained person.
- English Word Feather-headed Definition Giddy; frivolous; foolish.