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Look up: feather

  1. Feather
    Some dinosaurs may have had feathers.
    Found on http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subject

  2. feather
    [n] - the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds 2. [n] - turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls 3. [v] - join tongue and groove, in carpentry 4. [v] - cover or fit with feathers 5. [v] - turn the paddle 6. [v] - turn the oar, while rowing
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Feather
    The carbon-rich zone, visible in a flame, extending around and beyond the cone when there is an excess of carbonaceous gas.
    Found on http://www.meg.co.uk/courses/gl.php

  4. Feather
    NATO codename for Yak-15/17 [SU]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  5. feather
    to add extra interlinear space in order to achieve vertical justification Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a key(parallel key)attached to one member of a pair and permitting relative axial movement Category: Mechanical engineering • any disto...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. Feather
    Feath'er (fĕ&thlig;'ẽr) noun [ Middle English fether , Anglo-Saxon feðer ; akin to Dutch veder , Old High German fedara , German feder , Icelandic fjöðr , Swedish fjäder , Danish f...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/14

  7. Feather
    Feath'er transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Feathered ; present participle & verbal noun Feathering. ] 1. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap. &#x...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/14

  8. Feather
    Feath'er intransitive verb 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...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/14

  9. feather
    1. <ornithology> One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. ... 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...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  10. feather
    plume noun the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  11. feather
    feathering noun turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  12. feather
    square verb turn the oar, while rowing
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  13. feather
    verb cover or fit with feathers
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  14. Feather
    • (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe. • (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. • (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to. • (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. • (v. i.) T...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. feather
    the component structure of the outer covering and flight surfaces of all modern birds. Unique to birds, feathers apparently evolved from the scales ... [21 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/13

  16. Feather
    Feather is slang for a tuft of sticking-up hair on the forehead.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  17. Feather
    In timber, the feather is the characteristic figuring found in mahogany and some other woods when the timber is cut from the topmost part of the tree trunk through the actual base of the main branch.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  18. Feather
    Feather is slang for a tuft of sticking-up hair on the forehead.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  19. Feather
    a junction indicator on a colour light signal. A row of white lights lit when a slower speed diverging route is set.
    Found on http://www.scot-rail.co.uk/page/Glossary

  20. Feather
    Moving a 'flag' closer to or further away from a light source that it is in front of will feather (soften/harden) the shadow on the surface upon which the light falls. (Grip/Lighting)
    Found on http://www.filmland.com/glossary/Diction

  21. Feather
    Feather, river, 80 mi (129 km) long, rising in three forks in the Sierra Nevada, uniting N of Oroville, Calif., and flowing S into the Sacramento River, N of Sacramento, Calif. The Feather River basin was a rich source of gold in the mid-1800s. The Feather River project (1957–68), which includ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/us/A081836

  22. Feather
    Feathers are the form which the dermal appendages assume in birds, agreeing in mode of development, but differing in form from hairs and scales. The feather consists of a stem, horny, round, strong, and hollow in the lower part, called the quill, and in the upper part, called the shaft, filled with ...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  23. feather
    Rigid outgrowth of the outer layer of the skin of birds, made of the protein keratin. Feathers provide insulation and facilitate flight. There are several types, including long quill feathers on the wings and tail, fluffy down feathers for retaining body heat, and contour feathers covering the body....
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  24. feather
    A feathery looking white ice core in the middle of an otherwise clear ice block.
    Found on http://www.icecarvingsecrets.com/ics/ice

  25. Feather
    Hair from the heel which can go all the way up to the back of the knee depending on the breed.
    Found on http://www.hamletshouse.co.uk/nativepony



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