LekhoriLekhoriA branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
An Eagle had the ill Hap to be Struck with an Arrow Feather'd from her own Wing.
To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
A surname.
From Middle English feþer, from Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Cognate wi...
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A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines, or occupied in dwarf clusters the hollow plains of the moor.
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
The stylist feathered my hair.