Word Meanings - UNBARBED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not shaven. 2. Destitute of bards, or of reversed points, hairs, or plumes; as, an unbarded feather.

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• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• 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.
• REVERSIS
  A certain game at cards.
• REVERSIONER
  One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.
• 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.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• 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.
• REVERSIBLE
  1. Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence. 2. Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics. Reversible lock, a lock
• REVERSAL
  1. The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens. 2. A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal
• FEATHERLY
  Like feathers. Sir T. Browne.
• REVERSEDLY
  In a reversed way.
• 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.
• REVERSELESS
  Irreversible. A. SEward.
• DESTITUTENESS
  Destitution. Ash.
• 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.
• IRREVERSIBLE STEERING GEAR
  A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.
• IRREVERSIBLY
  In an irreversible manner.