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A newly sprouted feather.

To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.

account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.

ue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship. C. Middleton. The Indians were defeated and sued for peace. Jefferson.

A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.

To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage. But feathered soon and fledge They summed their pens [wings]. Milton. Summing up, a compendium or abridgment; a recapitulation; a résumé; a summary.

of the genus Heliangelos, noted for its beautiful colors and the brilliant luster of the feathers of its throat. -- Sun animalcute. (Zoöl.) See Heliozoa. -- Sun bath (Med.), exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; insolation. -- Sun bear (Zoöl.), a species of bear (Helarctos Malayanus) native of Southern Asia and…

le, and forming a large ornamental tuft on each shoulder, and a large gorget of brilliant feathers on the breast. The color is deep violet, or nearly black, with brilliant green reflections. The gorget is bright metallic green. -- Superb warber. (Zoöl.) See Blue wren, under Wren. -- Su*perb"ly, adv. -- Su*perb"ness,…

Situated above the ear coverts, or auriculars; -- said of certain feathers of birds. -- n.

Situated above the lores; as, the supraloral feathers of a bird. -- n.

s the process of ascertaining and representing upon a plane surface the contour, physical features, etc., of any portion of the surface of the earth.

Slight degree; suggestion; hint. [Colloq.] The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion . . . of saturnine or sarcastic humor. A. W. Ward.

To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.

The down, or fine, soft feathers, of the swan, used on various articles of dress.

The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.

time and strength in tackling windmills under conditions the most fitted to insure her defeat. Dublin Univ. Mag.

A downy or feathery appendage to certain achens. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.

Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish. His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. Shak.

at he had no patience. Wake. I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. Moore.

A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head. [Scot.] Jamieson.