Word Meanings - HYPORADIUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.
Related words: (words related to HYPORADIUS)
- 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.