-age

1. The entire clothing of a bird.

Consisting of the contour feathers, or the ordinary feathers covering the head, neck, and body; the tail feathers, with their upper and lower coverts; the wing feathers, including primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, with their coverts; and the down which lies beneath the contour feathers.

2. The covering of feathers over a bird's body.

It may vary with the age of the bird or the season of the year, and accordingly it may be described as breeding plumage, winter plumage, or juvenile, immature, or adult plumage.

In detailed descriptions of the external feathers (topography) of birds, standardized names are normally used for the various sections of the plumage, for example malar region and tail coverts.

The malar region refers to the cheek, defined in birds as the area in front of, and slightly below, the eyes.

The tail coverts are the small feathers covering the base of the tail. They are grouped as upper and lower tail coverts.

A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.

1. The action or work of carrying or transporting.
2. To carry or transport (boats, goods, etc.) over land between navigable waters.

1. Human and domestic waste matter from buildings; especially houses, that is carried away through sewers.
2. The waste matter that passes through sewers.

1. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.
2. Waste matter, or materials, carried away in sewers or drains.

1. Offense, resentment; annoyance; displeasure: "Professors and students took umbrage at the implication that colleges should be filling heads with trivia"
2. The slightest indication or vaguest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility, or the like.
3. Something that provides shade; a shadow or shade; for example, leaves that afford shade, as the foliage of trees.
4. A vague or shadowy shape or simply an indication; a hint.
5. A shadowy appearance or semblance of something.

The expression take umbrage or "take offence" arises from a metaphorical extension of "shadow" to "suspicion", which took place in French.

1. Wordiness, long-windedness, blather, or garrulity.
2. Wording of a superabundant or superfluous character, abundance of words without necessity or without much meaning; excessive wordiness.
3. Diction, wording, verbal expression.

1. A vicar's residence.
2. A vicar's benefice.
3. A vicar's duties or office.