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feathery
CIDE DICTIONARY
feathery, a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton. [1913 Webster]
"Ye feathery people of mid air." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
feathery
airy, bubbly, downy, ethereal, fleecy, flossy, fluffy, foamy, frothy, furry, fuzzy, gossamery, hirsute, imponderous, lanate, leger, light, light as air, lighter than vanity, mousse, nappy, peachy, pinnate, pubescent, souffle, unheavy, velvety, volatile, weightless, woolly, yeastyROGET THESAURUS
feathery
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.For further exploring for "feathery" in Webster Dictionary Online