Feather

1. 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.
2. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
3. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
4. To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
5. Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
6. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
7. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
8. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
9. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
10. To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
11. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
12. To tread, as a cock.
13. To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
14. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
15. One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
16. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
17. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.