Clues for the word "FEATHER"
We've had 34 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 46 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on December 23, 2024.
Definition of feather
- n. - One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
- n. - Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
- n. - The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
- n. - A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
- n. - One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- n. - 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.
- n. - A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
- n. - The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- v. t. - To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
- v. t. - To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
- v. t. - To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- v. t. - To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- v. t. - To tread, as a cock.
- v. i. - To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
- v. i. - To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
- v. i. - To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
- v. i. - To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
Referring Clues
- Part of a boa
- Partner of 60-Across
- Bird dropping?
- Exemplar of lightness
- Wing thing
- It's on the wing
- Kind of pillow
- Plume
- Kind of bed
- Plumage
- Word before weight
- ____bedding
- Bit of blanket filler
- Boa bit
- Alarm about the light thing
- Afraid to grip the wedge?
- A piece of flying equipment, naturally
- Awful fate met the woman in the aviary
- Carrying the alarm - it's very light
- Sire acquiring energy - with 9 4 is nominally said to be 21 6
- The fare, as cooked, is known to be light
- The fare being cooked is very light
- Priest swallows drug - it helps in flight
- Down with her earlier act!
- Quill
- Show anxiety about the type of bed
- It's shed by a bird
- It's used in flight (by the RAF out East?)
- Dread about article that's light
- Though light, means a great effort for the woman concerned
- Be afraid to hold an article that's so very light!
- The fear possibly associated with a white one?
- Though ticklish, perhaps, can be taken lightly
- Element of plumage ... and a feature shared by every answer crossing this one
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 23, 2024
- LA Times - November 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - October 17, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - May 08, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - May 01, 2023
- New York Times - November 29, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 01, 2022
- Mirror Classic - January 19, 2018
- Mirror Quick - January 03, 2018
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 26, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 03, 2017
- Mirror Quick - August 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - July 18, 2017
- Mirror Quick - June 18, 2017
- Mirror Classic - June 16, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 18, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - May 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - April 04, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - October 19, 2016
- USA Today - July 13, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - June 13, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 15, 2016
- Canadiana - February 08, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 14, 2015
- And in 16 more crossword puzzles...