Meaning of இறகு in English
- One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
- Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
- The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
- A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- 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.
- A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
- To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
- To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- To tread, as a cock.
- To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
- To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
- To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
- To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
- An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.
- Giddy; frivolous; foolish.
- A frivolous or featherbrained person.
- Same as Foliation.
- The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.
- A covering of feathers.
- Feather-headed; frivolous.
- Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow.
- The entire clothing of a bird.
- A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
- An ornamental tuft of feathers.
- A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.
- A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
- A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
- To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
- To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
- To adorn with feathers or plumes.
- To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
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