Word Meanings - FILOPLUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Related words: (words related to FILOPLUME)

• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• SCAPE
  1. An escape. I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. Shak. 2. Means of escape; evasion. Donne. 3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and
• 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.
• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• SCAPEGALLOWS
  One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. Dickens.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• FATHER
  1. To make one's self the father of; to beget. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak. 2. To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• 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.
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• SCAPEGRACE
  A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.
• 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.
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• FATHER-IN-LAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• SEA FEATHER
  Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
• ALENGTH
  At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.