Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of feather.
Examples
“_Pin feathers_ are small unformed feathers that do not pull out with the larger ones.”
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish
“The feathers of the African species, however, are far less beautiful and valuable than those from the tail of the adjutant; and it is these last that are really best known as _marabout feathers_, in consequence of the mistake made by”
“The naked vulture neck with its pouch-like appendage of brick-red hue; the silken feathers of bluish white under the tail -- those precious plumes well-known and worn by the ladies of many lands under the appellation of _marabout feathers_ -- all were recognised at a glance.”
“The fibers of the beard are made of the same stuff in feathers the shape is just different.”
QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt.
“This panel depicts the god Ehécatl (the Night Wind) dressed in feathers, his nose pointed like a bird's beak and with claws for feet.”
Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco
“We've had no other fossils to tell us how the distinctive shape of penguin feathers, how the feathered flipper of living penguins evolved.”
“Still, cars equipped with high-tech gear that originated from mere chicken feathers is a seriously resourceful concept.”
Chicken Feathers May Fuel Hydrogen Cars in the Future | Inhabitat
“Pluck the small feathers from the underside of the wing to reveal the quills of the primary feathers.”
“It looked like a goose, it was all covered in feathers and ringed with red and had a silver plug at the end.”
“They are amazing to watch -- their bodies look like they're covered in feathers, but they're not.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘feathers’.
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•Open List: What's On Your Work Desk?
Name one or more of the strangest things you've ever had on or around your desk. (Coworkers don't count.) Please explain on the word page for our continuing enjoyment. :-)
Inspired by ...preserved slice o..., coffee mug shaped..., 11th-century illu..., book from hitler'..., krazy ikes, magic 8 ball, queen of tech ser..., 3 ft.-long hangin..., pickled pig lips, stapler, tennis-ball sized..., 16-channel audio ... and 100 more...
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Things that were hidden by the snow
Now that the rain has come to wash away the snow, all sorts of objects are emerging.
broken china, scarf, feathers, baked potatoes, batteries, mitten, a different mitten, job application, dinosaur toy, broken hanger, empty cigarette pack, broken beer bottle and 44 more...
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Whooping Crane
Words for the Whooping Crane Alphabet book
ultralight, patuxent, maryland, wisconsin, florida, people, chick, juvenile, adult, swamp monster, teach, learn and 48 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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precious
coin, waiflike, zoo, captain, difference, diet, automagical, olive, noanoa, dusk, cookie, monday and 221 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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Tunie: The Devil and the Feathery Wife
Recorded by Martin Carthy.
Now there was an old farmer lived over the hill
And a poor old fellow they say
He was plagued by a scolding wife
The worst misfortune that day<...demons, dwell, quail, damned, hiss, steam, navel, tea, feathers, barrel, stark naked, droppings and 27 more...
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hazel
dimbox, flatwheeler, egg harbor, clothesline, whiskbroom, let's blouse, crabhanger, shifter, snugglepup, petting party, finale hopper, hiphound and 61 more...
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take a part
cheek, limb, wrist, palm, collar, claw, throat, ear, ribs, bruise, beard, bones and 46 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for feathers.
fbharjo CB, the cartoon is a bate - perhaps?
To beat: in the phrase to bate the wings, to flutter, fly.
In falconry, to beat the wings impatiently; flutter as preparing for flight, particularly at the sight of prey; flutter away.
To flutter; be eager or restless.
To flutter or fly down. Century Dictionary
a falconsaur? Bear-baiting was banned in 1835.
Sep 19, 2012
chained_bear http://xkcd.com/1104/ Sep 18, 2012
minouchette small talk Oct 8, 2010
trivet Upon closer inspection, the mysterious feathers in the pen can I inherited are actually some sort of pseudo-quill contraptions. Someone took apart a ballpoint pen, taped the ink/ballpoint part to the feather shaft, and then laboriously wrapped it all in white duct tape. I'm impressed. Jun 19, 2008