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The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.

Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak.

The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.

e 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.

The state or condition of being feathery.

s it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.

Destitute of feathers.

Like feathers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.