. (Surv.) The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ OF. desfaiture a killing, disguising, prop., an undoing. See Defeat, and cf. Disfeature. ]
p. p. Changed in features; deformed. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Cf. Defeature. ] To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. feture form, shape, feature, OF. faiture fashion, make, fr. L. factura a making, formation, fr. facere, factum, to make. See Feat, Fact, and cf. Facture. ]
What needeth it his feature to descrive? Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
It is for homely features to keep home. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
And to her service bind each living creature
Through secret understanding of their feature. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
So scented the grim feature, and upturned
His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The well-stained canvas or the featured stone. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no distinct or distinctive features. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Ill feature. [ R. ] Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Wanting regular features; deformed. “Visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]