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A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

pecially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. Shipley.

A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly. Hfledge with wings. Milton.

To feather, as an arrow. Bp. Warburton. [Congress] fletched their complaint, by adding: "America loved his brother." Bancroft.

One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. [Obs.] Mortimer.

The husk or glume of oats. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. to take a flight{9}. Flight feathers (Zoöl.), the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird. -- To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout.

Feathered; -- said of arrows.

A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.

Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

Very black. [Obs.] As any raven's feathers it shone forblack. Chaucer.

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds. Fork-tailed flycatcher (Zoöl.), a tropical American flycatcher (Milvulus tyrannus). -- Fork-tailed gull (Zoöl.), a gull of the genus Xema, of two species, esp. X. Sabinii of the Arctic Ocean. -- Fork-tailed kite (Zoöl.)…

(Zoöl.), an Australian bird (Tropidorhynchus corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus. -- Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds and ulcer…

A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.

Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree. The swan's-down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide. Shak. Full of the moon, the time of full moon.

One who makes or uses perfumes. [Obs.] Embroiderers, feather makers, fumers. Beau. & Fl.

ory (Bot.), the Alleghany vine (Adlumia cirrhosa); a biennial climbing plant with elegant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.

A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.

The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.

ing Europe, Asia, and North America. It is so called from the brownish yellow tips of the feathers on the head and neck. A dark variety is called the royal eagle; the young in the second year is the ring-tailed eagle. -- Golden fleece. (a) (Mythol.) The fleece of gold fabled to have been taken from the ram that bore P…