Feather

Noun

 * 1) A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the wings of birds that allows their wings to create lift.
 * 2) * 1873, W. K. Brooks, "A Feather", Popular Science Monthly, volume IV, page 687
 * Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
 * 1) * 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Beasts of Tarzan, chapter V
 * Big fellows they were, all of them, their barbaric headdresses and grotesquely painted faces, together with their many metal ornaments and gorgeously coloured feathers, adding to their wild, fierce appearance.
 * 1) * 2000, C. J. Puotinen, The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care‎, page 362
 * Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers to line the nest, but feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.

Derived terms

 * afterfeather
 * birds of a feather
 * contour feather
 * featherback
 * featherbed
 * feather-bed
 * feather bed
 * featherbedding
 * featherbrain
 * featherbrained
 * feather-brained
 * featherdown
 * feather duster
 * featherhead
 * featherheads
 * featherily
 * featheriness


 * feathering strip
 * feather in one's cap
 * feather in one's hat
 * featherless
 * featherlight
 * featherlike
 * feather pen
 * feathertail
 * featherweight
 * featherwood
 * feather wool
 * featherwork
 * feathery
 * fine feathers make fine birds
 * flight feather
 * light as a feather

Verb

 * 1) To cover with feathers.
 * 2) To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
 * The stylist feathered my hair.
 * 1)  To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
 * 2)  To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller doesn't windmill as the aircraft flies.
 * After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine's propeller.
 * 1)  To finely shave or bevel an edge.
 * 2)  To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.

Derived terms

 * feathered
 * feather one's nest
 * feather one's own nest
 * tar and feather

Adjectives for Feather
flying; rumpled; motionless; courteous; superincumbent; molted; decorative; draggled; animated; varicolored (pi); lofty; silky; mottled; drooping; variegated (pi).

Verbs for Feather
adorn with—; attach—; bristle with—s; clothe with—s ; cover with—s; crop—corate with—s; deck with—s; display—s; exhibit—s; fledge with.—s; furnish—s; molt —s; ornament with—s; pick—s; pluck—; plume with—s; preen—s; provide—s; ruffle —s; rumple—s ; rustle—s; shake—s; smooth —s; strip of—s; wave—; wear—s; —floats; —tickles.

Thesaurus
a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, air, bagatelle, bank, bauble, bead, bean, bejewel, beribbon, bespangle, bibelot, bit, blood, blubber, brand, brass farthing, breed, breeze, bubble, butter, button, cast, catch a crab, ceil, cent, chaff, character, chip, clan, clay, cobweb, color, cork, covert, crab, crest, curio, cushion, cut a crab, denomination, description, designation, diamond, dip, dough, down, dust, eiderdown, engrave, ether, face, fairy, farce, farthing, feather an oar, feather bed, feathers, fig, figure, filigree, fill, fishtail, flag, fleabite, fledge, fleece, floss, flounce, flower, flue, fluff, foam, folderol, form, fribble, frippery, froth, fur, fuzz, garland, gaud, gem, genre, genus, gewgaw, gimcrack, give way, gossamer, grain, hackle, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, ilk, illuminate, inlay, interline, jest, jewel, joke, kapok, kickshaw, kidney, kin, kind, knickknack, knickknackery, label, line, load, loop, lot, mail, make, manner, mark, minikin, mockery, mold, molehill, mote, nature, number, order, pace, pack, pad, paddle, paint, panache, peppercorn, persuasion, phylum, picayune, pillow, pin, pinch of snuff, pinion, pinprick, plow, plumage, plume, plumule, plush, ply the oar, porpoise, pudding, puff, pull, pull out, pull up, punt, push down, putty, quill, race, rap, red cent, ribbon, roll, row, row away, row dry, row of pins, rubber, rush, satin, scapular, scull, shape, ship oars, shit, shoot, sideslip, silk, skid, sky an oar, snap, sneeshing, sort, sou, spangle, species, speculum, spin, spiral, sponge, spume, stamp, strain, straw, stripe, stuff, stunt, style, swansdown, the like of, the likes of, thistledown, tinsel, topknot, toy, tribe, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuft, tuppence, two cents, twopence, type, undulate, variety, velvet, wad, wainscot, wax, whim-wham, wool, wreathe, yaw, zephyr

Etymology
feþer:.

Noun

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 * Basque: luma
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 * Catalan: ploma
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 * Chumash: qap
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 * Erzya: толга (tolga)
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 * Guaraní: ague (t-)
 * Gujarati: પીછું (pīchun)
 * Hebrew: נוצה (notza)
 * Hindi: पंख (pankh), पर (par)
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 * Javanese: wulu
 * Interlingua: pluma, penna
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 * Japanese: (hane)
 * Korean: 깃
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 * Rohingya: fóoir
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 * Cyrillic: перо, перка
 * Roman: pero, perka
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 * Swahili: nyoya
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 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: ఈక (eeka)
 * Tok Pisin: gras bilong pisin
 * Tupinambá: aba (s-)
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: plüm, pen,  bödapen

Verb

 * Swahili: nyoya


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 * Danish: skodde

Anagrams

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 * terefah