feather - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'feather' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Feather

[ n.]

- One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
- Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
- The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
- A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- 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.
- A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

2 . Feather

[ v. i.]

- To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
- To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
- To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
- To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

3 . Feather

[ v. t.]

- To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
- To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
- To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- To tread, as a cock.

Meaning of 'feather' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . feather

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- grow feathers

Example in sentence:

The young sparrows are fledging already

Nearby Words:

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Featherbedding
Featherbedding is an unfair labor practice occurring when a union requires an employer to pay an employee for services he or she did not perform.

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