Dictionary Entry
feather
feather is a 7-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 12 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
- 2noun
Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
- 3noun
The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
- 4noun
A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
- 5noun
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
- 8noun
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- 9transitive verb
To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
- 10transitive verb
To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
- 11transitive verb
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- 12transitive verb
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- 13transitive verb
To tread, as a cock.
- 14intransitive verb
To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
- 15intransitive verb
To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
- 16intransitive verb
To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
- 17intransitive verb
To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
- 18noun
turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
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- 19noun
the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
- 20verb
grow feathers
"The young sparrows are fledging already"
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- 21verb
turn the oar, while rowing
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- 22verb
turn the paddle; in canoeing
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- 23verb
cover or fit with feathers
- 24verb
join tongue and groove, in carpentry
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