feathering
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]feathering
- present participle and gerund of feather
Noun
[edit]feathering (countable and uncountable, plural featherings)
- Plumage.
- 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 […]
- The fitting of feathers to arrows.
- (architecture) An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.
- Visible offshoots of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.