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Few
·superl Not many; small, limited, or confined in number;
— indicating a small portion of units or i...
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few
1) to few, to change. N.
2) often applied to broth will you have a few broth? York. A good few, a g...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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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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flam-few
The brilliant reflection of the moon on the water.
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Feather-brained
·adj Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.
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Feather-edge
·noun Any thin, as on a board or a razor.
II. Feather-edge ·noun The thin, new growth around the ed...
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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-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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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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 ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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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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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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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feather-bed lane
A rough or stony lane.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to feather one's nest
To collect riches together; alluding to birds which collect feathers, among other materials, for mak...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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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