Feather-edge

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• Edge

  ·vi To sail close to the wind. II. Edge ·vt To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. III. Ed...

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• to edge

  To excite, stimulate, or provoke; or as it is vulgarly called, to egg a man on. Fall back, fall edge...

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• to edge

  To move sideways; to move gradually.--Webster. Well, says I, I must be a goin'; I can't think of pa...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Feather

  ·vt To tread, as a cock. II. Feather ·vi To turn to a horizontal plane; — said of oars. III. Feat...

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• feather

  (See swine's feather or swedish feather.) It is used variously. (See also full feather and white fea...

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• Advancing edge

  ·add. ·- The front edge (in direction of motion) of a supporting surface; — contr. with following e...

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• Deckle edge

  ·add. ·- The rough, untrimmed edge of paper left by the deckle; also, a rough edge in imitation of t...

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• Following edge

  ·add. ·- ·see Advancing-edge, above. ...

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• Gilt-edge

  ·adj ·Alt. of Gilt-edged. ...

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• Knife-edge

  ·noun A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving...

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• Leading edge

  ·add. ·- ·same·as Advancing edge, above. ...

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• Trailing edge

  ·add. ·- A following edge. ·see Advancing edge, above. ...

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• moulding edge

  That edge of a timber to which, in shaping it, the mould is applied. ...

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• sea-edge

  The boundary between the icy regions of the "north water" and the unfrozen portion of the Arctic Sea...

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• Feather-brained

  ·adj Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. ...

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• Feather-edged

  ·adj Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; — in the Unit...

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• Feather-few

  ·noun <<Feverfew>>. ...

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• Feather-foil

  ·noun An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves. ...

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• Feather-head

  ·noun A frivolous or featherbrained person. ...

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• Feather-headed

  ·adj Giddy; frivolous; foolish. ...

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• Feather-heeled

  ·adj Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome. ...

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• Feather-pated

  ·adj Feather-headed; frivolous. ...

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• Feather-veined

  ·adj Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib. ...

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• Sea feather

  ·- Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form. ...

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• Water feather

  ·- ·Alt. of Water feather-foil. ...

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• bull's feather

  A horn: he wears the bull's feather; he is a cuckold. ...

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• white feather

  He has a white feather; he is a coward; an allusion to a game cock, where having a white leather is ...

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• feather-edged

  A term used by shipwrights for such planks as are thicker on one edge than the other. ...

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• feather-spray

  Such as is observed at the cut-water of fast steamers, forming a pair of wing feathers. ...

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• feather-star

  The Comatula rosacea, one of the most beautiful of British star-fishes. ...

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• full feather

  Attired in best dress or full uniform. ...

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• land-feather

  A sea-cove. ...

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• swine's feather

  The spike or tuck on the top of a musket-rest [corrupted from sweyn, a boar's bristle]. ...

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• swedish feather

  The spike or tuck on the top of a musket-rest [corrupted from sweyn, a boar's bristle]. ...

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• white feather

  The figurative symbol of cowardice: a white feather in a cock's tail being considered a proof of cro...

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• edge away, to

  To decline gradually from the course which the ship formerly steered, by sailing larger, or more off...

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• edge down, to

  To approach any object in an oblique direction. ...

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• Water feather-foil

  ·- The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata. ...

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• to feather one's nest

  To enrich one's self. ...

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• feather-bed lane

  A rough or stony lane. ...

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• to feather one's nest

  To collect riches together; alluding to birds which collect feathers, among other materials, for mak...

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• cutting a feather

  It is common when a ship has too broad a bow to say, "She will not cut a feather," meaning that she ...

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• birds of a feather

  Rogues of the same gang. ...

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• feather, to cut a

  When a ship has so sharp a bow that she makes the spray feather in cleaving it. ...

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• feather an oar, to

  In rowing, is to turn the blade horizontally, with the top aft, as it comes out of the water. This l...

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