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Word Meanings - HYPORADIUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.

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  • FEATHERNESS
    The state or condition of being feathery.
  • 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.
  • AFTERSHAFT
    The hypoptilum.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • FEATHERLY
    Like feathers. Sir T. Browne.
  • FEATHERY
    Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton. Ye feathery people of mid air. Barry Cornwall.
  • FEATHERSTITCH
    A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
  • HYPOPTILUM
    An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather. (more info) Gr.
  • FEATHER-HEELED
    Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.
  • FEATHER-HEAD
    A frivolous or featherbrained person. H. James.
  • FEATHERBONE
    A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.
  • FEATHER-BRAINED
    Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.
  • FEATHER
    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. 7. A thin wedge driven between the two
  • FEATHERINESS
    The state or condition of being feathery.
  • FEATHER-PATED
    Feather-headed; frivolous. Sir W. Scott.
  • FEATHER-EDGE
    The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster. 2. Any thin, as on a board or a razor.
  • PINFEATHERED
    Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
  • SEA FEATHER
    Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
  • PINFEATHER
    A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.
  • MIDFEATHER
    A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.

 

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