1. mostly in plural feathers , (Odyssey by Homer), etc.; in singular a feather , (Aristophanes Comicus) 2. = πτέρυξ, a bird's wing , in plural wings , (Homer); Παλλάδος ὑπὸ πτεροῖς ὄντας, metaphorically from chickens under the hen's wings, (Aeschulus Tragicus): —; τῷ πτερὰ γίγνετο he got as it were wings , i. e. spirit, courage, (Iliad by Homer) 3. the wings of a bat (see. πτίλον II), (Herdotus Historicus) 4. any winged creature , as the Sphinx, (Euripides); a beetle, (Aristophanes Comicus) 5. like οἰωνός, Lat. avis, an augury, omen, (Pindar) 6. anything like wings : as 7. a ship's wings , i. e. oars (compare πτερόω); ἐρετμά, τά τε πτερὰ νηυσὶ πέλονται (Odyssey by Homer); νηὸς πτερά (Hesiod):—; hence birds are said πτεροῖς ἐρέσσειν, (Euripides) 8. ἀέθλων πτερά, i. e. the wings of victory, which lift the Poet to heaven, (Pindar) 9. a feathered arrow , (Euripides) 10. τοῦ πώγωνος τὰ πτερά the points of the beard, (Lucian) 11. in Architecture, of the rows of columns along the sides of Greek temples, see. ἄπτερος. (ML)