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adj
- Not having feathers.
- (of birds) not yet having developed feathers
- (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers
- Of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced; hence, of or relating to youth.
- Of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly.
- Of a thing: not yet fully developed; imperfect, incomplete, unfinished.
- young and inexperienced
verb
adj
- having or covered with feathers
- Covered with feathers.
- adorned with feathers or plumes
- (poetic) Covered or adorned with something, as if with feathers.
- (poetic) Swift, like the flight of a feathered creature.
- (rowing) Having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Having a finely bevelled edge.
- (in combination) Having a specific type or number of feathers.
- (Appalachia) Badly beaten.
verb
adj
- Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
- Of a statement or account, unembellished.
- (by extension) Denuded of any covering.
- (specifically) Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.
- Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
- Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
- Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
- lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
- with no effort to conceal
- without the natural or usual covering
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verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
noun
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noun
verb
- cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- to remove
- (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- (transitive, music) To woodshed.
adj
noun
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
- (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed.
- (British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
verb
noun
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- a hollow filled with mud
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A state of depression.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
verb
- strip of feathers
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- look for and gather
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
noun
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
verb
- strip of feathers
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for
- rein in to keep from winning a race
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- tear or be torn violently
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- operate when rowing a boat
- steer into a certain direction
- apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- strain abnormally
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
- move into a certain direction
- cause to move by pulling
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour associated with the person or thing mentioned (with a and the name of a person, place, event, etc.).
- (intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
- (martial arts) In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- (cooking, transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
- (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
- (transitive, intransitive) (Followed by a preposition or adverb) To drive (a vehicle) in a particular direction or to a particular place.
- (transitive) To remove or withdraw (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- (transitive, law enforcement) To pull over (a driver or vehicle); to detain for a traffic stop.
- (computing) To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.
- (horse racing, transitive) To impede the progress of (a horse) to prevent its winning a race.
- (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- (transitive, informal) To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- (rail transportation, US) Of a railroad car, to pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- (UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- (transitive) To retrieve or look up for use.
- (construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
- (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- (ambitransitive, US, slang) To interest (someone) in dating or pursuing one (whether or not this has led to sex).
- (video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- (ambitransitive, chiefly UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
- (transitive) To transport by rowing.
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck or pick (flowers, fruit, etc.).
- (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- (intransitive) To row.
noun
- a device used for pulling something
- the force used in pulling
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a sustained effort
- the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
- special advantage or influence
- (countable, colloquial) A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- (countable) Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- (uncountable, figurative, informal) The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
- (cricket) A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
- (uncountable, figurative) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- (Internet slang) A high-quality or funny recommendation by the algorithm.
- (countable, figurative) A randomized selection from a given set.
- (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
- (uncountable) An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- (countable) An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
- (gacha games) A player's use of a game's gacha mechanic to obtain a random reward.
- (printing) A proof sheet.
- (Internet) The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.
- (countable) A journey made by rowing.
- (countable) An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; strain; sprain.
- (uncountable, figurative) Appeal or attraction.
intj
verb
- strip of feathers
- move quickly and violently
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- to separate or be separated by force
- fill with tears or shed tears
- (intransitive) To produce tears.
- (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
- (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
- (transitive) To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
- (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
- (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
- (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
- (computing, intransitive) To be interrupted midway through.
- (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
- (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
noun
- a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
- the act of tearing
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
- (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
- (slang) A rampage.
- A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
- That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
- A hole or break caused by tearing.
noun
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- (by extension) Any pen.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (zoology) The pen of a squid.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow spine of a feather
- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
verb
- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- (figuratively) To write.
- (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
noun
- a bunch of feathers or hair
- a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
verb
verb
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- grow feathers
- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- (transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- (transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- (transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- (snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- (transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
- (ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- (intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- (aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- (transitive) To move softly, like a feather.
- (snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- turn the oar, while rowing
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
- cover or fit with feathers
- join tongue and groove, in carpentry
noun
- (rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- (cricket) A faint edge.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
- (hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
- branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
adj
- (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
- (slang) All worked out; completely understood.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
- equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service
- tied or bound with wire
- tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
- having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- (by extension) Any pen.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (zoology) The pen of a squid.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow spine of a feather
- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
verb
- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- (figuratively) To write.
- (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
noun
- a bunch of feathers or hair
- a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
verb
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- to remove
- (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- (transitive, music) To woodshed.
adj
noun
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
- (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed.
- (British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
verb
noun
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- a hollow filled with mud
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A state of depression.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
verb
- strip of feathers
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- look for and gather
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
noun
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
verb
- strip of feathers
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for
- rein in to keep from winning a race
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- tear or be torn violently
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- operate when rowing a boat
- steer into a certain direction
- apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- strain abnormally
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
- move into a certain direction
- cause to move by pulling
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour associated with the person or thing mentioned (with a and the name of a person, place, event, etc.).
- (intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
- (martial arts) In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- (cooking, transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
- (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
- (transitive, intransitive) (Followed by a preposition or adverb) To drive (a vehicle) in a particular direction or to a particular place.
- (transitive) To remove or withdraw (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- (transitive, law enforcement) To pull over (a driver or vehicle); to detain for a traffic stop.
- (computing) To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.
- (horse racing, transitive) To impede the progress of (a horse) to prevent its winning a race.
- (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- (transitive, informal) To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- (rail transportation, US) Of a railroad car, to pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- (UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- (transitive) To retrieve or look up for use.
- (construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
- (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- (ambitransitive, US, slang) To interest (someone) in dating or pursuing one (whether or not this has led to sex).
- (video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- (ambitransitive, chiefly UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
- (transitive) To transport by rowing.
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck or pick (flowers, fruit, etc.).
- (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- (intransitive) To row.
noun
- a device used for pulling something
- the force used in pulling
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a sustained effort
- the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
- special advantage or influence
- (countable, colloquial) A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- (countable) Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- (uncountable, figurative, informal) The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
- (cricket) A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
- (uncountable, figurative) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- (Internet slang) A high-quality or funny recommendation by the algorithm.
- (countable, figurative) A randomized selection from a given set.
- (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
- (uncountable) An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- (countable) An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
- (gacha games) A player's use of a game's gacha mechanic to obtain a random reward.
- (printing) A proof sheet.
- (Internet) The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.
- (countable) A journey made by rowing.
- (countable) An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; strain; sprain.
- (uncountable, figurative) Appeal or attraction.
intj
verb
- strip of feathers
- move quickly and violently
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- to separate or be separated by force
- fill with tears or shed tears
- (intransitive) To produce tears.
- (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
- (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
- (transitive) To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.
- (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
- (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
- (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.
- (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
- (computing, intransitive) To be interrupted midway through.
- (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
- (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing, or with sudden great force.
noun
- a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
- the act of tearing
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
- (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
- (slang) A rampage.
- A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
- That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
- A hole or break caused by tearing.
verb
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- grow feathers
- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- (transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- (transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- (transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- (snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- (transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
- (ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- (intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- (aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- (transitive) To move softly, like a feather.
- (snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- turn the oar, while rowing
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
- cover or fit with feathers
- join tongue and groove, in carpentry
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- (rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- (cricket) A faint edge.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
- (hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
- branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
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- Not having feathers.
- (of birds) not yet having developed feathers
- (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers
- Of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced; hence, of or relating to youth.
- Of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly.
- Of a thing: not yet fully developed; imperfect, incomplete, unfinished.
- young and inexperienced
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adj
- having or covered with feathers
- Covered with feathers.
- adorned with feathers or plumes
- (poetic) Covered or adorned with something, as if with feathers.
- (poetic) Swift, like the flight of a feathered creature.
- (rowing) Having the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Having a finely bevelled edge.
- (in combination) Having a specific type or number of feathers.
- (Appalachia) Badly beaten.
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adj
- Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
- Of a statement or account, unembellished.
- (by extension) Denuded of any covering.
- (specifically) Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.
- Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
- Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
- Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
- lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
- with no effort to conceal
- without the natural or usual covering
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- (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
- (slang) All worked out; completely understood.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
- equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service
- tied or bound with wire
- tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
- having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices