feather

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Synonyms: weather, father, leather, heather, eather, fether, meather, feater, teather, deather

Antonyms: weather, father, leather, heather, eather, fether, meather, feater, teather, deather

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Noun

1. A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of [[bird]]s, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
2. Long hair on the lower legs of a [[dog]] or [[horse]], especially a [[draft horse]], notably the [[Clydesdale]] breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
3. {{senseid|en|arrow stabilizer applied by fletching}} One of the [[fin]]s or [[wing]]s on the [[shaft]] of an [[arrow]].
4. {{senseid|en|spline or key or counterpart thereof}} A [[longitudinal]] [[strip]] projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.
5. Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "[[birds of a feather]]").
6. One of the two [[shim|shims]] of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as {{w|plug and feather}} or [[plug and feathers]]; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.<ref>{{R:Knight AMD}}</ref>
7. The [[angular]] [[adjustment]] of an [[oar]] or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a [[horizontal]] [[axis]], as it leaves or enters the water.
8. Anything petty or trifling; a [[whit]] or [[jot]].
9. {{lb|en|hunting|in the plural}} [[partridge|Partridges]] and [[pheasant]]s, as opposed to [[rabbit]]s and [[hare]]s (called ''fur'').
10. {{lb|en|rail}} A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
11. {{lb|en|cricket}} A [[faint]] [[edge]].

Verb

1. To [[cover]] or furnish with feathers; {{lb|en|when|_|of an|arrow}} to [[fletch]].
2. To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
3. To [[arrange]] in the manner or appearance of feathers.
4. {{lb|en|ambitransitive|rowing}} To [[rotate]] the [[oar]]s while they are out of the [[water]] to [[reduce]] [[wind]] [[resistance]].
5. {{lb|en|aeronautics}} 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 does not [[windmill]] during flight.
6. {{lb|en|carpentry|engineering}} To finely [[shave]] or [[bevel]] an edge.
7. {{lb|en|computer graphics}} To [[intergrade]] or [[blend]] the [[pixel]]s of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
8. {{lb|en|intransitive}} Of written or printed [[ink]]: to take on a [[blurry]] appearance as a result of [[spread]]ing through the receiving medium.
9. {{lb|en|transitive}} To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
10. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[enrich]]; to exalt; to benefit.
11. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[tread]], as a [[cockerel]].
12. {{lb|en|snooker|billiards}} To move the [[cue]] back and forth along the [[bridge]] in preparation for striking the [[cue ball]].

Proper noun

1. {{surname|en}}.

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