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. Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. Dryden.

Cause of loss of life. Swiftly flies the feathered death. Dryden. He caught his death the last county sessions. Addison.

Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.

A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind. Totten.

Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.

Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon.

A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears. Eared owl (Zoöl.), an owl having earlike tufts of feathers, as the long-eared owl, and short-eared owl. -- Eared seal (Zoöl.), any seal of the family Otariidæ, including the fur seals and hair seals. See Seal.

of wearied eyes. Tennyson. Eaves board (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also eaves catch and eaves lath. -- Eaves channel, Eaves gutter…

A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.

A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.

The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.

ngers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle. Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. Pepys.

Figure; dress; array. [Colloq.] Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras Prof. Wilson.