Anagrams of: FEATHERSTITCHES

• A kind of embroidery stitch made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.

• To make stitches of this kind.

• a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs)

• large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe

• A government ruled by God or a god; a theocracy.

• A system or ordering of deities. (Compare pantheon.)

• flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed

• large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins

• any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth

• To deceive someone by professing romantic feelings but actually using a false identity

• be fond of; be attached to