one of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.-kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.-the fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.-a tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.-one of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.-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 sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.-a thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.-the angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.-to furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.-to adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.-to render light as a feather; to give wings to.-to enrich; to exalt; to benefit.-to tread, as a cock.-to grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.-to curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers-to turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.-to have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.