Word Meanings - FEATHER-PATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Feather-headed; frivolous. Sir W. Scott.

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• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• HEADING
  A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. (more info) 1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of
• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• HEADLAND
  1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
• HEADNOTE
  A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.
• HEADFISH
  The sunfish .
• FEATHER-FEW
  Feverfew.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• FEATHER-FOIL
  An aquatic plant , having finely divided leaves.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• HEADRACE
  See COURSE
• HEADACHY
  Afflicted with headache.
• HEADROOM
  See 2
• HEADSTONE
  1. The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone. Ps. cxviii. 22. 2. The stone at the head of a grave.
• FEATHER-EDGED
  Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.
• HEADROPE
  That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.
• HEADSTRONGNESS
  Obstinacy. Gayton.
• FEATHERED
  Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered
• FEATHER-HEADED
  Giddy; frivolous; foolish. G. Eliot.
• HEADILY
  In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately.
• BEASTLIHEAD
  Beastliness. Spenser.
• THORN-HEADED
  Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.
• TORSION HEAD
  That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• BULLHEAD
  A small black water insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting , the kingfish of Florida . (more info) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's
• DUNDERHEAD
  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• PIG-HEADED
  Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n.
• BLUFF-HEADED
  Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
• WOOLHEAD
  The buffel duck.
• CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
  A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
• POPE'S HEAD
  A long-handled brush for dusting ceilings, etc., also for washing windows.