Feather
(Feath"er), v. i.
1. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; — often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
2. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream
feathers. [Colloq.]
3. To turn to a horizontal plane; — said of oars.
The feathering oar returns the gleam.
Tickell.
Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately.
Macmillan's Mag. 4. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground.
Warren.
The ripple feathering from her bows.
Tennyson. Feather-brained
(Feath"er-brained`) a. Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]
Feathered
(Feath"ered) a.
1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered
arrow.
Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury.
Shak.
Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent.
Dr. J. Scott. 2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.
3. (Zoöl.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
4. (Her.) Having feathers; — said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of
the shaft.
Feather-edge
(Feath"er-edge`) n.
1. (Zoöl.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.
2. Any thin, as on a board or a razor.
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.
Feather-few
(Feath"er-few) n. (Bot.) Feverfew.
Feather-foil
(Feath"er-foil`) n. [Feather + foil a leaf.] (Bot.) An aquatic plant having finely divided leaves.
Feather-head
(Feath"er-head`) n. A frivolous or featherbrained person. [Colloq.] H. James.
Feather-headed
(Feath"er-head`ed) a. Giddy; frivolous; foolish. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.
Feather-heeled
(Feath"er-heeled`) a. Light- heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome. [Colloq.]
Featheriness
(Feath"er*i*ness) n. The state or condition of being feathery.