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The state or condition of being feathery.

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton. Ye feathery people of mid air. Barry Cornwall.

Neatly; dexterously; nimbly. [Archaic] Foot featly here and there. Shak.

Skill; adroitness. [Archaic] Johnson.

a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak.

Having no distinct or distinctive features.

Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. [R.] Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.

One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.

The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. [Obs.] His unkindness may defeat my life. Shak.

Overthrow; defeat. [Obs.] "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl.

Changed in features; deformed. [R.] Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.

To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [R.]

Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett.

A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.

Ill feature. [R.] Keats.

To surpass in feats.

A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.