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Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.

s in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.

To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. Rowe. To tumble home (Naut.), to incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.

A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.

ive of Africa. They are remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers. [Written also touraco, and touracou.]

A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. See Turacin.

Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.

ngidæ. It is black, with a large handsome crest consisting of a mass of soft, glossy blue feathers curved outward at the tips. It also has a cervical plume consisting of a long, cylindrical dermal process covered with soft hairy feathers. Called also dragoon bird. -- Umbrella leaf (Bot.), an American perennial herb (D…

Destitute of bards, or of reversed points, hairs, or plumes; as, an unbarded feather.

e; underdose; under-garment; underofficer; undersheriff. Under covert (Zoöl.), one of the feathers situated beneath the bases of the quills in the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. under Bird.

Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed; immature. Dryden.

To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate.

o change from Protestantism to some other form of religion; to deprive of some Protestant feature or characteristic. The attempt to unprotestantize the Church of England. Froude.

upturn the ground in plowing. "A sea of upturned faces." D. Webster. So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton.

actice. [Obs.] The French soldiers . . . from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms. Sir T. More.

Of or pertaining to the uropygium, or prominence at the base of the tail feathers, in birds. Uropygial gland, a peculiar sebaceous gland at the base of the tail feathers in most birds. It secretes an oily fluid which is spread over the feathers by preening.

The prominence at the posterior extremity of a bird's body, which supports the feathers of the tail; the rump; -- sometimes called pope's nose.

To defeat; to put an end to. [R.] He vacates my revenge. Dryden.

The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.

It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white.