Word Meanings - DOWLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.

Related words: (words related to DOWLE)

• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• FEATHER-HEELED
  Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.
• FEATHER-HEAD
  A frivolous or featherbrained person. H. James.
• FEATHERBONE
  A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.
• FEATHER-BRAINED
  Giddy; frivolous; feather-headed.
• FILAMENTOID
  Like a filament.
• FEATHER
  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. 7. A thin wedge driven between the two
• FEATHERINESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• FILAMENTARY
  Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
• FILAMENT
  A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. , the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• SEA FEATHER
  Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
• PINFEATHER
  A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.
• VORTEX FILAMENT
  A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.
• MIDFEATHER
  A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.