A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
To cover or furnish with feathers.
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
To streamline the blades of an aircraft’s propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
To finely shave or bevel an edge.
To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
To tread, as a cock.
To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim
An appendage of an animal’s (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
Human arm.
Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
Passage by flying; flight.
Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:
A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
A position in several field games on either side of the field.
A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
A háček.
One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
On the Enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual’s subtype of his or her enneatype
To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
To fly.
To add a wing (extra part) to.
To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
To throw.
To furnish with wings.
To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
To traverse by flying.
