| Sea feather |
Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form. |
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| Water feather |
Alt. of Water feather-foil |
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| Water feather-foil |
The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata. |
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| Edge |
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc. |
v. t. |
| Edge |
Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. |
v. t. |
| Edge |
Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. |
v. t. |
| Edge |
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. |
v. t. |
| Edge |
To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. |
v. t. |
| Edge |
To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. |
v. t. |
| Edge |
To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box. |
v. t. |
| Edge |
To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. |
v. t. |
| Edge |
To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards. |
v. t. |
| Edge |
To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way. |
v. i. |
| Edge |
To sail close to the wind. |
v. i. |
| Feather |
One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. |
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| Feather |
Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species. |
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| Feather |
The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs. |
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| Feather |
A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse. |
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| Feather |
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. |
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| Feather |
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. |
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