feathering

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Verb

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feathering

  1. present participle and gerund of feather

Noun

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feathering (countable and uncountable, plural featherings)

  1. Plumage.
  2. A feathered texture.
    • 1834, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants:
      The whole flower is very small; the tube is faintly marked with lilac lines; the petals are concave, the three outer white, marked with three lines, the middle one narrow, without featherings, the outer ones broader, and neatly feathered []
  3. The fitting of feathers to arrows.
  4. (architecture) An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.
  5. Visible offshoots of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.

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