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Feather
·vt To tread, as a cock.
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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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Headed
·adj Formed into a head; as, a headed cabbage.
II. Headed ·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Head>>.
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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.
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Feather-edged
·adj Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board;
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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-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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Addle-headed
·adj ·Alt. of Addle-pated.
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Beetle-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Bluff-headed
·adj Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
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Buckler-headed
·adj Having a head like a buckler.
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Buffle-headed
·adj Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering.
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Clear-headed
·adj Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent.
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Cool-headed
·adj Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion.
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Dog-headed
·adj Having a head shaped like that of a dog;
— said of certain baboons.
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Double-headed
·adj Having two heads; bicipital.
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Dunder-headed
·adj Thick-headed; stupid.
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Flat-headed
·adj Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail.
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Giddy-headed
·adj Thoughtless; unsteady.
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Gross-headed
·adj Thick-skulled; stupid.
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Hard-headed
·adj Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
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Heavy-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Hot-headed
·adj Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement.
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Idle-headed
·adj Foolish; stupid.
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Janus-headed
·adj Double-headed.
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Light-headed
·adj Disordered in the head; dizzy; delirious.
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Mad-headed
·adj Wild; crack-brained.
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Muddy-headed
·adj Dull; stupid.
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Mushroom-headed
·adj Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a m...
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Nail-headed
·adj Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail.
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Nott-headed
·adj Having the hair cut close.
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Open-headed
·adj <<Bareheaded>>.
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Pig-headed
·adj Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.
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Pudding-headed
·adj <<Stupid>>.
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Puzzle-headed
·adj Having the head full of confused notions.
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Rattle-headed
·adj Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
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Rug-headed
·adj Having shaggy hair; shock-headed.
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Sheep-headed
·adj Silly; simple-minded; stupid.
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Shock-headed
·adj Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
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Soft-headed
·adj Weak in intellect.
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Thick-headed
·adj Having a thick skull; stupid.
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Thorn-headed
·adj Having a head armed with thorns or spines.
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Triple-headed
·adj Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus.
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Wagon-headed
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beetle-headed
Dull, stupid.
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bottle-headed
Void of wit.
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buffle-headed
Confused, stupid.
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chuckle-headed
Stupid, thick-headed.
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hulver-headed
Having a hard impenetrable head; hulver, in the Norfolk dialect, signifying holly, a hard and solid ...
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mutton-headed
Stupid.
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pig-headed
Obstinate.
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totty-headed
Giddy, hare-brained.
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watery-headed
Apt to shed tears.
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dansey-headed
giddy, thoughtless. Norf. and Suff.
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dausey-headed
giddy, thoughtless. Norf. and Suff.
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stag-headed
see randle-piked.
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bluff-headed
When a ship has but a small rake forward on, being built with her stem too straight up.
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chowder-headed
Stupid, or batter-brained.
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chuckle-headed
Clownishly stupid; lubberly.
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dead-headed
Timber trees which have ceased growing.
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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
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cutting a feather
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crowdy-headed jock
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pudding-headed fellow
A stupid fellow, one whose brains are all in confusion.
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woolly-headed grass
n.
an indigenousAustralian grass, Andropogon bombycinus, R. Br.
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double-headed maul
One with double faces; top-mauls in contradistinction to pin-mauls.
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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hammer-headed shark
The Zygæna malleus, a strange, ugly shark. The eyes are situated at the extremities of the hammer-sh...
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saucer-headed bolts
Those with very flat heads.
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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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