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A license for absence from a college or a religious house. [Eng.] Shipley.

Extraction. [Obs.] Spenser.

Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope.

Same as Confarreation.

An act; a deed; an exploit. The warlike feats I have done. Shak.

Having a feat or trim body. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Dexterous; neat. [Obs.] Johnson. -- Feat"e*ous*ly, adv.

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed. [Colloq.]

The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.

Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.

Feverfew.

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

A frivolous or featherbrained person. [Colloq.] H. James.

Giddy; frivolous; foolish. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.

Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome. [Colloq.]

Feather-headed; frivolous. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

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

A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury. Shak. Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. Dr. J. Scott.