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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.

The act of turning the blade of the oar, as 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.

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.

The theory which likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory (which see).

Fourth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A fiddle [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having broad, hangling lips. [R.] Shak.

Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.

A white crystalline hydrocarbon C