1. (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

2. (n.) Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, Birds of a feather, that is, of the same species.

3. (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

4. (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzy hair on a horse.

5. (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

6. (n.) 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 sidewise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.

7. (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semi cylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.

8. (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

9. (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.

10. (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.

11. (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

12. (v. t.) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

13. (v. t.) To tread, as a cock.

14. (v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.

15. (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers

16. (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.

17. (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

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