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A perfect, or normal, feather.

Like or pertaining to a normal feather.

A bunch of feathers; a plume. [Obs.] Holland.

Variegated; striped. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Feathery covering; plumage. [Obs.] Holland.

A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, or long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel. "With flags and pennants trimmed."…

Winged; plume-shaped.

Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.

f the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.

Having two wings. "Bipennated insects." Derham.

Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

Forward on all vessels on convoy duty.

Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins. -- n.

Having long wings, or quills.

Of or pertaining to Planipennia.

Having four wings; -- said of insects.

Same as Tripinnate.

One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.

A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus Argentina.

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace. Bedecked with boughs, flowers, and garlands. Pennant.