prep. & adv. [ Pref. a- + neath for beneath. ] Beneath. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + weather. ] (Naut.) On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather! Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. beðian to foment. ] To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ OE. benethe, bineoðen, AS. beneoðan, benyðan; pref. be- + neoðan, nyðan, downward, beneath, akin to E. nether. See Nether. ] 1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. “Beneath the mount.” Ex. xxxii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our country sinks beneath the yoke. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming. [ 1913 Webster ]

He will do nothing that is beneath his high station. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a lower place; underneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earth you take from beneath will be barren. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bequeathed p. pr. & vb. n. Bequeathing. ] [ OE. biquethen, AS. becweðan to say, affirm, bequeath; pref. be- + cweðan to say, speak. See Quoth. ] 1. To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. [ 1913 Webster ]

My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hand down; to transmit. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give; to offer; to commit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom, with all submission, on my knee
I do bequeath my faithful services
And true subjection everlastingly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To Bequeath, Devise. Both these words denote the giving or disposing of property by will. Devise, in legal usage, is property used to denote a gift by will of real property, and he to whom it is given is called the devisee. Bequeath is properly applied to a gift by will or legacy; i. e., of personal property; the gift is called a legacy, and he who receives it is called a legatee. In popular usage the word bequeath is sometimes enlarged so as to embrace devise; and it is sometimes so construed by courts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being bequeathed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bequeathing; bequeathment; bequest. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bequeathing, or the state of being bequeathed; a bequest. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. breth, breeth, AS. br&aemacr_;ð odor, scent, breath; cf. OHG. brādam steam, vapor, breath, G. brodem, and possibly E. Brawn, and Breed. ] 1. The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Melted as breath into the wind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The power of respiration, and hence, life. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou takest away their breath, they die. Ps. civ. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Time to breathe; respite; pause. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me some breath, some little pause. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant. [ 1913 Webster ]

He smiles and he frowns in a breath. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earthquake voice of victory,
To thee the breath of life. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle. [ 1913 Webster ]

A breath can make them, as a breath has made. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea,
when not a breath of wind flies o'er its surface. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. Tennison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The breath of flowers. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

An after dinner's breath. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out of breath, breathless, exhausted; breathing with difficulty. --
Under one's breath, in low tones. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Such as can be breathed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being breathable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to test the alcohol content of someone's blood by means of a breathalyzer.
Syn. -- breathalyse. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ a Trademark. ]a device that measures alcohol content of a person's breath.
Syn. -- breathalyser, breath analyzer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Breathed p. pr. & vb. n. Breathing. ] [ From Breath. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. “I am in health, I breathe.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land! Sir W. Scott [ The Lay of the Last Minstrel ]. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. To take breath; to rest from action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to exhale; to emanate; to blow gently. [ 1913 Webster ]

The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There breathes a living fragrance from the shore. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration; to respire. [ 1913 Webster ]

To view the light of heaven, and breathe the vital air. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into. [ 1913 Webster ]

Able to breathe life into a stone. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Gen. ii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To emit or utter by the breath; to utter softly; to whisper; as, to breathe a vow. [ 1913 Webster ]

He softly breathed thy name. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,
A mother's curse, on her revolting son. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To exhale; to emit, as breath; as, the flowers breathe odors or perfumes. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To express; to manifest; to give forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others articles breathe the same severe spirit. Milner. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To act upon by the breath; to cause to sound by breathing. “They breathe the flute.” Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To promote free respiration in; to exercise. [ 1913 Webster ]

And every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

A moment breathed his panting steed. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To put out of breath; to exhaust. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mr. Tulkinghorn arrives in his turret room, a little breathed by the journey up. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Phonetics) To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants. [ 1913 Webster ]

The same sound may be pronounces either breathed, voiced, or whispered. H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged [ in whispering ]. H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

To breathe again, to take breath; to feel a sense of relief, as from danger, responsibility, or press of business. --
To breathe one's last, to die; to expire. --
To breathe a vein, to open a vein; to let blood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. uttered without voice.
Syn. -- voiceless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. having breath or breath as specified; usually used in combination; as, sweet-breathed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives. (b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. a pause to catch one's breath, or for some other form of rest or refreshment; -- often used in the phrase
to take a breather, i.e. to pause for refreshment. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

4. a vent in a container to allow equalization of internal and external pressure. [ PJC ]

5. an air intake pipe to provide air to machinery or people submerged or otherwise sealed off from the outside. [ PJC ]

a. Full of breath; full of odor; fragrant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. [ 1913 Webster ]

Subject to a difficulty of breathing. Melmoth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Air in gentle motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Aspiration; secret prayer. “Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state.” Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Exercising; promotion of respiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here is a lady that wants breathing too;
And I have heard, you knights of Tyre
Are excellent in making ladies trip. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Utterance; communication or publicity by words. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Breathing place; vent. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Stop; pause; delay. [ 1913 Webster ]

You shake the head at so long a breathing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Gr. Gram.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathing place. (a) A pause. “That cæsura, or breathing place, in the midst of the verse.” Sir P. Sidney. (b) A vent. --
Breathing time, pause; relaxation. Bp. Hall. --
Breathing while, time sufficient for drawing breath; a short time. Shak. --
Rough breathing (spiritus asper) (&asper_;). See 2d Asper, n. --
Smooth breathing (spiritus lenis), a mark (') indicating the absence of the sound of h, as in 'ie`nai (ienai). [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. 1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. [ 1913 Webster ]

But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Dead; as, a breathless body. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a breathless manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being breathless or out of breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a shrub (Spiraea prunifolia) having copious small white flowers in spring.
Syn. -- bridal wreath, Saint Peter's wreath, St. Peter's wreath. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. deth, deað, AS. deáð; akin to OS. dōð, D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dauði, Sw. & Dan. död, Goth. dauþus; from a verb meaning to die. See Die, v. i., and cf. Dead. ] 1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Local death is going on at all times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. [ 1913 Webster ]

The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. J. Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. [ 1913 Webster ]

A death that I abhor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me die the death of the righteous. Num. xxiii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Cause of loss of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swiftly flies the feathered death. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He caught his death the last county sessions. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death! great proprietor of all. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. Rev. vi. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Danger of death. “In deaths oft.” 2 Cor. xi. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Murder; murderous character. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not to suffer a man of death to live. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be carnally minded is death. Rom. viii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black death. See Black death, in the Vocabulary. --
Civil death, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Blackstone. --
Death adder. (Zool.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa (Acanthophis tortor); -- so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidæ, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica. --
Death bell, a bell that announces a death. [ 1913 Webster ] The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle. --
Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. --
Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. --
Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. [ 1913 Webster ] And round about in reel and rout,
The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. --
Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. --
Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [ Poetic ] “Lay lingering out a five years' death in life.” Tennyson. --
Death rate, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population. [ 1913 Webster ] At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Darwin. --
Death rattle, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. --
Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. --
Death stroke, a stroke causing death. --
Death throe, the spasm of death. --
Death token, the signal of approaching death. --
Death warrant. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. --
Death wound. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. --
Spiritual death (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. --
The gates of death, the grave. [ 1913 Webster ] Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Job xxxviii. 17. --
The second death, condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11. --
To be the death of, to be the cause of death to; to make die. “It was one who should be the death of both his parents.” Milton.

Syn. -- Death, Decease, Demise, Departure, Release. Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deathblow of my hope. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. [ 1913 Webster ]

These eyes behold
The deathful scene. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liable to undergo death; mortal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death; a knell{ 1 }. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: (figuratively) A sign or harbinger of the end, death, or passing away of anything. [ PJC ]

a. Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Resembling death. [ 1913 Webster ]

A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deadly. [ Obs. ] “Deathlike dragons.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death's-head moth (Zool.), a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also death's-head sphinx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Toward death. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) (a) A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. (b) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick. [ 1913 Webster ]

She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become unsheathed. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. [ AS. eáðe. ] Easy or easily. [ Obs. ] “Eath to move with plaints.” Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of breathing in; inspiration. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost. W. Lee. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Inwreathe. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Appearing only when times or circumstances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather friend. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fair-weather sailor, a make-believe or inexperienced sailor; -- the nautical equivalent of carpet knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fether, AS. feðer; akin to D. veder, OHG. fedara, G. feder, Icel. fjöðr, Sw. fjäder, Dan. fjæder, Gr. ptero`n wing, feather, pe`tesqai to fly, Skr. pattra wing, feather, pat to fly, and prob. to L. penna feather, wing. √76, 248. Cf. Pen a feather. ] 1. One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ An ordinary feather consists of the quill or hollow basal part of the stem; the shaft or rachis, forming the upper, solid part of the stem; the vanes or webs, implanted on the rachis and consisting of a series of slender laminæ or barbs, which usually bear barbules, which in turn usually bear barbicels and interlocking hooks by which they are fastened together. See Down, Quill, Plumage.

2. Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, “Birds of a feather, ” that is, of the same species. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am not of that feather to shake off
My friend when he must need me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mach. & Carp.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Feather is used adjectively or in combination, meaning composed of, or resembling, a feather or feathers; as, feather fan, feather-heeled, feather duster. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feather alum (Min.), a hydrous sulphate of alumina, resulting from volcanic action, and from the decomposition of iron pyrites; -- called also halotrichite. Ure. --
Feather bed, a bed filled with feathers. --
Feather driver, one who prepares feathers by beating. --
Feather duster, a dusting brush of feathers. --
Feather flower, an artifical flower made of feathers, for ladies' headdresses, and other ornamental purposes. --
Feather grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Stipa pennata) which has a long feathery awn rising from one of the chaffy scales which inclose the grain. --
Feather maker, one who makes plumes, etc., of feathers, real or artificial. --
Feather ore (Min.), a sulphide of antimony and lead, sometimes found in capillary forms and like a cobweb, but also massive. It is a variety of Jamesonite. --
Feather shot, or
Feathered shot (Metal.), copper granulated by pouring into cold water. Raymond. --
Feather spray (Naut.), the spray thrown up, like pairs of feathers, by the cutwater of a fast-moving vessel. --
Feather star. (Zool.) See Comatula. --
Feather weight. (Racing) (a) Scrupulously exact weight, so that a feather would turn the scale, when a jockey is weighed or weighted. (b) The lightest weight that can be put on the back of a horse in racing. Youatt. (c) In wrestling, boxing, etc., a term applied to the lightest of the classes into which contestants are divided; -- in contradistinction to light weight, middle weight, and heavy weight. --
A feather in the cap an honour, trophy, or mark of distinction. [ Colloq. ] --
To be in full feather, to be in full dress or in one's best clothes. [ Collog. ] --
To be in high feather, to be in high spirits. [ Collog. ] --
To cut a feather. (a) (Naut.) To make the water foam in moving; in allusion to the ripple which a ship throws off from her bows. (b) To make one's self conspicuous. [ Colloq. ] --
To show the white feather, to betray cowardice, -- a white feather in the tail of a cock being considered an indication that he is not of the true game breed. [ 1913 Webster ]