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"Section F, G and H"

Tickell.


Stopping his sculls in the air to feather
accurately.
Macmillan's Mag.


4. To have the appearance of a feather or of
feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.


A clump of ancient cedars feathering in
evergreen beauty down to the ground.
Warren.


The ripple feathering from her
bows.
Tennyson.


Feath"er-brained` (?), a. Giddy;
frivolous; feather-headed.
[Colloq.]


Feath"ered (?), a. 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. (Zoöl.


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