Feather
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(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 [2]
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).
