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Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery. "His plumy crest." Addison. "The plumy trees." J. S. Blackie.

An agent or confederate in treachery. [Obs.] Shak.

ewspaper, handbills, etc. -- Printing wheel, a wheel with letters or figures on its periphery, used in machines for paging or numbering, or in ticket-printing machines, typewriters, etc.; a type wheel.

Disclosure; treachery; treason. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.

Debauchery; lewdness. The rakery and intrigues of the lewd town. R. North.

Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage. [Prov. or Low.] Dickens.

tion of water, usually one in which the water, entering it centrally, escapes at its periphery in a direction opposed to that of its motion by orifices at right angles, or inclined, to its radii.

A genus of pterodactyls in which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.

heel used in Egypt for raising water, from wells or pits, in buckets attached to its periphery or to an endless rope.

A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. Halliwell.

o be revealed. To tell our secrets is often folly; to communicate those of others is treachery. Rambler.

o a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face. -- Segment of a line, the part of a line contained between two points on it. -- Segment of a sphere, the part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes. -- Ventral segment. (Acoustic…

om the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.

wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.

The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.

One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. Bowsprit shrouds (Naut.), ropes extending from the head of the bowsprit to the sides of the vessel. -- Futtock shrouds (Naut.), iron rods connecting the topmast rigging with the lower rigging, passing…

The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy. [Written also smiddy.] Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands. Lonfellow.

Smoldering; suffocating; smothery. [Obs.] A flaming fire ymixt with smoldry smoke. Spenser.

The quality or state of being smothery.