| PBFD | Psittacine beak and feather disease |
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| feather | 1. <ornithology> One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. An ordinary feather consists of the quill or hollow basal part of the stem; the shaft or rachis, forming the upper, solid part of the stem; the vanes or webs, implanted on the rachis and consisting of a series of slender laminae or barbs, which usually bear barbicels and interlocking hooks by which they are fastened together. See Down, Quill, Plumage. 2. Kind; nature; species; from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species. "I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me." (Shak) 3. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs. 4. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse. 5. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. 6. <machinery> A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline. 7. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. 8. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water. Feather is used adjectively or in combination, meaning composed of, or resembling, a feather or feathers; as, feather fan, feather-heeled, feather duster. <chemical> Feather alum, a hydrous sulphate of alumina, resulting from volcanic action, and from the decomposition of iron pyrites; called also halotrichite. Feather bed, a bed filled with feathers. Feather driver, one who prepares feathers by beating. Feather duster, a dusting brush of feathers. Feather flower, an artifical flower made of feathers, for ladies' headdresses, and other ornamental purposes. <botany> Feather grass Scrupulously exact weight, so that a feather would turn the scale, when a jockey is weighed or weighted. The lightest weight that can be put on the back of a horse in racing. In wrestling, boxing, etc, a term applied to the lightest of the classes into which contestants are divided; in contradistinction to light weight, middle weight, and heavy weight. A feather in the cap an honour, trophy, or mark of distinction. To be in full feather, to be in full dress or in one's best clothes. To be in high feather, to be in high spirits. To cut a feather. To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows. To make one's self conspicuous. To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an indication that he is not of the true game breed. Origin: OE. Fether, AS. Feder; akin to D. Veder, OHG. Fedara, G. Feder, Icel. Fjor, Sw. Fjader, Dan. Fjaeder, Gr. Wing, feather, to fly, Skr. Pattra wing, feathr, pat to fly, and prob. To L. Penna feather, wing. Cf. Pen a feather. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| feather-edge | 1. <zoology> The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster. 2. Any thin, as on a board or a razor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feather-few | <botany> Feverfew. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feather-foil | <botany> An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves. Origin: Feather + foil a leaf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feather-veined | <botany> Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feathered | 1. 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) 2. Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees. 3. <zoology> Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. 4. Having feathers; said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feathering | 1. Same as Foliation. 2. 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. 3. A covering of feathers. Feathering float, a paddle wheel whose floats turn automatically so as to dip about perpendicularly into the water and leave in it the same way, avoiding beating on the water in the descent and lifting water in the ascent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| water feather-foil | <botany> The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. Inflata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea feather | <zoology> Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Synonyms : Feather
| feather | turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls |
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| feather | the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds |
| feather | grow feathers, of birds |
| feather | turn the oar, while rowing |
| feather | turn the paddle |
| feather | cover or fit with feathers |
| feather | join tongue and groove, in carpentry |
| feather | a low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines |
| feather | a mattress stuffed with feathers |
| feather | a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur |
| feather | Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers |
| feather | palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves |
제품명 |
판매사 |
보험코드 | 성분/함량 | 구분/보험급여 |
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제품명 |
판매사 |
보험코드 | 성분/함량 | 구분/보험급여 |
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