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(lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
* (1800-1859)
*:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)
*:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:
*:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
*1869 , , :
*:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.
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, title= Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kind, sort; character; quality.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
(lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my days of nature
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Oppressed nature sleeps.
(lb) Natural affection or reverence.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?
(obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
* 1873 , W. K. Brooks, "A Feather", Popular Science Monthly , volume IV, page 687
* 1914 , , The Beasts of Tarzan , chapter V
* 2000 , C. J. Puotinen, The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care? , page 362
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
* Shakespeare
One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as (plug and feather) or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
To cover or furnish with feathers.
* L'Estrange
To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
(ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
(aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller doesn't windmill as the aircraft flies.
(carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
(computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
* Sir Walter Scott
To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
* Loveday
To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
* Francis Bacon
To tread, as a cock.
As a proper noun nature
is the sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.As a noun feather is
a branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.As a verb feather is
to cover or furnish with feathers.nature
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Alternative forms
* natuer (obsolete)Noun
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Derived terms
* animal nature * back to nature * bad nature * by nature * call of nature * defy the laws of nature * crime against nature * freak of nature * good nature * human nature * law of nature/laws of nature * let nature take its course * Mother Nature * nature morte * nature preserve * nature reserve * nature strip * nature study * nature worship * second nature (nature)Verb
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(wikipedia feather)Alternative forms
* fetherNoun
(en noun)- Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
- Big fellows they were, all of them, their barbaric headdresses and grotesquely painted faces, together with their many metal ornaments and gorgeously coloured feathers , adding to their wild, fierce appearance.
- Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers' to line the nest, but ' feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different.
- I am not of that feather to shake off / My friend when he must need me.
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* (horse hair) feathers, feathering, horsefeathersAntonyms
* (horse hair at rear of lower legs) spatsDerived terms
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(en verb)- An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing.
- The stylist feathered my hair.
- After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine's propeller.
- A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines.
- The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
- They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
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Derived terms
* feathered * feather one's nest * feather one's own nest * tar and featherReferences
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