French Meaning of feather
Plume
Other French words related to Plume
Nearest Words of feather
- feather ball => volant
- feather bed => Lit de plumes
- feather boa => Boa en plumes
- feather geranium => Pélargonium à feuilles découpées
- feather one's nest => Se faire un nid
- feather palm => Palmier à plumes
- feather reed grass => Roseau
- feather star => comatule
- featherbed => lit de plumes
- featherbedding => gavage
Definitions and Meaning of feather in English
feather (n)
the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
feather (v)
join tongue and groove, in carpentry
cover or fit with feathers
turn the paddle; in canoeing
turn the oar, while rowing
grow feathers
feather (n.)
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.
feather (v. t.)
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.
feather (v. i.)
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.
FAQs About the word feather
Plume
the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds, turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls, join tongue and groove, in carp
race,genre,gentil,trier,Bande,type,variété,description,premier,Reins
désarroi,lambeaux,déshabillé
feateous => beau, feat-bodied => De belle taille, feat => fait, feasting => festin, feastful => festoyant,
