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feathered
(encz) | feathered,opeřený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
feathered
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Feathered
(gcide) | Feather \Feath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feathered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Feathering.]
1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a
cap.
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An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow
feathered from her own wing. --L'Estrange.
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2. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
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A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow
ravines. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.]
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The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious
hours. --Loveday.
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4. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
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They stuck not to say that the king cared not to
plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
--Bacon.
--Dryden.
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5. To tread, as a cock. --Dryden.
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To feather one's nest, to provide for one's self especially
from property belonging to another, confided to one's
care; -- an expression taken from the practice of birds
which collect feathers for the lining of their nests.
To feather an oar (Naut), to turn it when it leaves the
water so that the blade will be horizontal and offer the
least resistance to air while reaching for another stroke.
To tar and feather a person, to smear him with tar and
cover him with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity.
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Feathered
(gcide) | Feathered \Feath"ered\, a.
1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or
wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
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Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. --Shak.
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Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases
and pointed with pathetic accent. --Dr. J.
Scott.
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2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed;
as, land feathered with trees.
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3. (Zool.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of
certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
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4. (Her.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the
feathers are of a tincture different from that of the
shaft.
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feathered
(wn) | feathered
adj 1: adorned with feathers or plumes [syn: feathery,
feathered, plumy]
2: having or covered with feathers; "our feathered friends"
[ant: featherless, unfeathered] |
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feathered
(encz) | feathered,opeřený adj: Zdeněk Brožfeathered,péřový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
featheredge
(encz) | featheredge, n: |
featheredged
(encz) | featheredged, adj: |
fine-feathered friend
(encz) | fine-feathered friend, |
tarred-and-feathered
(encz) | tarred-and-feathered, adj: |
unfeathered
(encz) | unfeathered, adj: |
deckled deckle-edged featheredged
(gcide) | bordered \bor"dered\ adj.
having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes
used as a combining term; as, black-bordered handkerchief.
Antonym of unbordered. [Narrower terms: boxed; {deckled,
deckle-edged, featheredged}; lined; seagirt, sea-girt]
Also See: finite.
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Feathered shot
(gcide) | Feather \Feath"er\ (f[e^][th]"[~e]r), n. [OE. fether, AS.
fe[eth]er; akin to D. veder, OHG. fedara, G. feder, Icel.
fj["o][eth]r, Sw. fj[aum]der, Dan. fj[ae]der, Gr. ptero`n
wing, feather, pe`tesqai to fly, Skr. pattra wing, feather,
pat to fly, and prob. to L. penna feather, wing. [root]76,
248. Cf. Pen a feather.]
1. One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds,
belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
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Note: An ordinary feather consists of the quill or hollow
basal part of the stem; the shaft or rachis, forming
the upper, solid part of the stem; the vanes or webs,
implanted on the rachis and consisting of a series of
slender lamin[ae] or barbs, which usually bear
barbules, which in turn usually bear barbicels and
interlocking hooks by which they are fastened together.
See Down, Quill, Plumage.
2. Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase,
"Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species. [R.]
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I am not of that feather to shake off
My friend when he must need me. --Shak.
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3. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some
other dogs.
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4. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
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5. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
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6. (Mach. & Carp.) 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.
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7. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts
of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the
stone. --Knight.
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8. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float,
with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or
enters the water.
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Note: Feather is used adjectively or in combination, meaning
composed of, or resembling, a feather or feathers; as,
feather fan, feather-heeled, feather duster.
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Feather alum (Min.), a hydrous sulphate of alumina,
resulting from volcanic action, and from the decomposition
of iron pyrites; -- called also halotrichite. --Ure.
Feather bed, a bed filled with feathers.
Feather driver, one who prepares feathers by beating.
Feather duster, a dusting brush of feathers.
Feather flower, an artifical flower made of feathers, for
ladies' headdresses, and other ornamental purposes.
Feather grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Stipa pennata)
which has a long feathery awn rising from one of the
chaffy scales which inclose the grain.
Feather maker, one who makes plumes, etc., of feathers,
real or artificial.
Feather ore (Min.), a sulphide of antimony and lead,
sometimes found in capillary forms and like a cobweb, but
also massive. It is a variety of Jamesonite.
Feather shot, or Feathered shot (Metal.), copper
granulated by pouring into cold water. --Raymond.
Feather spray (Naut.), the spray thrown up, like pairs of
feathers, by the cutwater of a fast-moving vessel.
Feather star. (Zool.) See Comatula.
Feather weight. (Racing)
(a) Scrupulously exact weight, so that a feather would
turn the scale, when a jockey is weighed or weighted.
(b) The lightest weight that can be put on the back of a
horse in racing. --Youatt.
(c) In wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the
lightest of the classes into which contestants are
divided; -- in contradistinction to light weight,
middle weight, and heavy weight.
A feather in the cap an honour, trophy, or mark of
distinction. [Colloq.]
To be in full feather, to be in full dress or in one's best
clothes. [Collog.]
To be in high feather, to be in high spirits. [Collog.]
To cut a feather.
(a) (Naut.) To make the water foam in moving; in allusion
to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows.
(b) To make one's self conspicuous. [Colloq.]
To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, -- a white
feather in the tail of a cock being considered an
indication that he is not of the true game breed.
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Feather-edge
(gcide) | Feather-edge \Feath"er-edge`\, n.
1. (Zool.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell,
of an oyster.
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2. Any thin, as on a board or a razor.
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Feather-edged
(gcide) | Feather-edged \Feath"er-edged`\, a.
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.
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feathery feathered plumy
(gcide) | decorated \decorated\ adj.
having decorations. [Narrower terms: {beaded, beady,
bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled,
sequined, spangled, spangly}; bedaubed; {bespectacled,
monocled, spectacled}; braided; {brocaded, embossed,
raised}; buttony; carbuncled; {champleve, cloisonne,
enameled}; crested, plumed having a decorative plume);
crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested;
embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; {encircled,
ringed, wreathed}; {fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked
out}; feathery, feathered, plumy; {frilled, frilly,
ruffled}; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid;
inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; {paneled,
wainscoted}; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled;
tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out]
Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.
Syn: adorned.
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Pinfeathered
(gcide) | Pinfeathered \Pin"feath`ered\, a.
Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
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Unfeathered
(gcide) | Unfeathered \Unfeathered\
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feathered
(wn) | feathered
adj 1: adorned with feathers or plumes [syn: feathery,
feathered, plumy]
2: having or covered with feathers; "our feathered friends"
[ant: featherless, unfeathered] |
featheredge
(wn) | featheredge
n 1: a thin tapering edge |
featheredged
(wn) | featheredged
adj 1: having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper
resembling handmade [syn: deckled, deckle-edged,
featheredged] |
tarred-and-feathered
(wn) | tarred-and-feathered
adj 1: smeared with tar and covered with feathers as a
punishment; "the poor tarred-and-feathered wretch" |
unfeathered
(wn) | unfeathered
adj 1: having no feathers; "a featherless biped"; "the
unfeathered legs of an Orpington" [syn: unfeathered,
featherless] [ant: feathered]
2: not having feathers; "the unfeathered brood" |
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