Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
FEATURE
I. noun see: do
Date: 14th century
1. the structure, form, or appearance especially of a person, physical beauty,
2. the makeup or appearance of the face or its parts, a part of the face ; lineament ,
3. a prominent part or characteristic, any of the properties (as voice or gender) that are characteristic of a grammatical element (as a phoneme or morpheme), a special attraction: as, a featured motion picture, a featured article, story, or department in a newspaper or magazine, something offered to the public or advertised as particularly attractive , featureless adjective
II. verb (featured; featuring)
Date: circa 1755
transitive verb to resemble in features, to picture or portray in the mind ; imagine ,
3. to give special prominence to , to have as a characteristic or feature , intransitive verb to play an important part