Feather

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

(2):

(v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

(3):

(v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; - said of oars.

(4):

(v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers

(5):

(v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; - often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.

(6):

(v. t.) To tread, as a cock.

(7):

(n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

(8):

(n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.

(9):

(v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.

(10):

(v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.

(11):

(v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.

(12):

(n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

(13):

(n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.

(14):

(n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

(15):

(n.) 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.

(16):

(n.) Kind; nature; species; - from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.

(17):

(n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

1. נוֹצָה or נֹצָה notsah' (fuom נָצָת, to fly), a pinion or wing-feather, Ezekiel 17:3; Ezekiel 17:7 (falsely "ostrich" in Job 39:13; but it means the excrement of the crop in Leviticus 1:16).

2. אֶבְרָה, ebrah' (fem. of אֶבֶר, Isaiah 40:21, which has the same meaning), likewise a pinion or wing-feather, Psalms 68:13; Psalms 91:4 (inexactly "wing," Deuteronomy 32:11; Job 39:13).

3. Incorrectly for הֲסַירָה chasidah', Job 39:13, the stork, as elsewhere rendered. (See Wing).