1. feather - Noun
2. feather - Verb
3. Feather - Proper noun
One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
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.
A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
To tread, as a cock.
To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOne should be light like a bird, and not like a feather. Paul Valéry
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Wharton
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. Shania Twain
Birds of a feather flock together. English Proverb
Listen to all, 'plucking a feather from every passing goose,' but follow no one absolutely. Chinese Proverb
You must walk a long while behind a wild goose before you find an ostrich feather. Danish Proverb