Word Meanings - SEMIPLUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.

Related words: (words related to SEMIPLUME)

• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• FEATHER-FEW
  Feverfew.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• FEATHER-FOIL
  An aquatic plant , having finely divided leaves.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ORDINARY
  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
• FEATHER-EDGED
  Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.
• FEATHERED
  Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered
• FEATHER-HEADED
  Giddy; frivolous; foolish. G. Eliot.
• SHAFTMAN; SHAFTMENT
  A measure of about six inches.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FEATHERLY
  Like feathers. Sir T. Browne.
• FEATHERY
  Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton. Ye feathery people of mid air. Barry Cornwall.
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• SHAFT
  A rod at the end of a heddle. A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam
• FEATHER-HEELED
  Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.
• FEATHER-HEAD
  A frivolous or featherbrained person. H. James.
• SHAFTED
  Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures. (more info) 1. Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
• FEATHERBONE
  A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.
• WAY SHAFT
  A rock shaft.
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• SUBORDINARY
  One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always
• SEA FEATHER
  Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
• AIR SHAFT
  A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• PINFEATHER
  A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.
• ROCK SHAFT
  A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and