featheredge

& a. A. As subst .: An edge like a feather; the thinner edge of a board or plank. B. As adj .: Feather-edged. "Boards or planks that have one edge thinner than another are called feather -edge stuff." - Moxon : Mechanical Exercises . Feather-edge file : A file with an acute edge; the cro -section of the file being an isosceles triangle with a short base; a knife-file. IMG:content-1494.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1495.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1496.png:[blocks in formation] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) Clothed or covered with feathers. "Were it feathered fowl or fourefoted best." William of Palerne, 191. IMG:content-1497.png:[blocks in formation] "In feathered briefne sails are fitted." Shakesp.: Pericles, v. 2. *(4) Smoothed, as with down or feathers. "Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases." Scott : Works , ii. 124. (Johnson.) II. Her.: Applied to an arrow in which the feather is of a different tincture from the shaft. feathered-gillofers, s . Bot.: Dianthus plumarius . So called from the deeply fringed petals. ( Lyte ; Britten & Holland .) feath-er-i-ne , s. [Eng. feathery ; -ne .] 1. Lit.: The quality or state of being feathery. *2. Fig.: Lightne , levity, ficklene . "There is such a levity and featherine in our minds." -Bates: Sure Trial of Uprightne . feath-er-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [FEATHER, 2.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: I. Ord. Lang.: The act of clothing, providing, or furnishing with feathers. II. Technically : 1. Joinery: The act or art of joining boards by grooving and tonguing. 2. Arch .: An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting points or cusps, used as ornaments in the moldings of arches, ., in Gothic architecture ( Weale ). [FOLIATION.] 3. Rowing : The turning of the blade of the oar horizontally as it leaves the water. feathering-columbine, s. Bot.: [FEATHER-COLUMBINE.] feature lin e feathering-screw, s. LER.]