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fethers of a bird's wing, lying in the axilla or arm^pit, close to the bedy. feather 'fed9z v. [also spelt / ether']

1. tr. furnish with fethers.

2. intr. move, wave, or float like fethers.

3. turn (an oar or blade), at a certain peint in the stjoke, so that it may pass thru the fluid edgeways.

feather-border 'fed9z,be:z-d9z n. [also spelt fether?border] that part of the border or margin of a bird's wing which is beset or fringed with, or made up of, fethers; the berder or outline of the fethers (collectivly) of a bird's wing.

featherdom 'fedaz-dam n. [also spelt fetherdom] the relm of fetherd creatures; the fethery kingdom.

feathered 'fedazd adj. [also spelt fetherd'} provided with or having fethers : as, the *fetherd tjibe ; *f etherd Mercury.

feather-follicle 'fed9z,feh-k9t n. [also spelt fethcrtfollicle] one of the follicles or little pits in a bird's skin which sup- ports the base of the fether^papilla upon uuhich the future fether is molded or generated.

feather-germ 'fed9z,d3B:zm n. [also spelt fethertgerm] the germ from which a bird's fether develops; the papilla.

feathering 'fed9-zirj n. [also spelt fethering] the action of the verb feather] also, the fether, as of an arrow; the fethers collectivly; the plumage; fetherslike structure.

feathering 'feda-zirj adj. [also spelt fethering] feathering movement, see / 'eathering* movement.

feathering-movement 'fed9zirj,muuv-m9nt n. [also spelt fethering* movement] a mode of wing^movement resembling the movement of an oar which is being 'fetherd' or turnd at the end of the stroke and brought back thru the air edge- wise; a movement characterized by an alternately flatwise and edgewise turning of the vanes, wings, or blades.

feathering-paddle 'fed9zin,p3ed} n. [also spelt fethering* paddle] one of the paddles or vanes, in a rotary or other apparatus, which have a fethering or alternately flatwise and edgewise motion, proposed for propelling or lifting flying^machines ; a fethering^vane.

feathering-vane 'fed9<rirj,veen n. [also spelt fetheringt vane] one of the vanes or blades in a propellingsTjpheel pro- posed for airships, Designed to move in a manner some- what akin to the fethenng^movement of oars; a fethenng- paddle.

f eatherless 'fedaz-tes adj. [also spelt fetherless] having no fethers; destitute of fethers; without plumage.

feather-like 'fedaz^aik adj. [also spelt fethertlike] like or resembling a fether.

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