Crossword clues for feathering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feather \Feath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Feathering.]
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To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
An eagle had the ill hap to be struck with an arrow feathered from her own wing.
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To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines.
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To render light as a feather; to give wings to.[R.]
The Polonian story perhaps may feather some tedious hours.
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To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.
--Bacon.
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To tread, as a cock.
--Dryden.To feather one's nest, to provide for one's self especially from property belonging to another, confided to one's care; -- an expression taken from the practice of birds which collect feathers for the lining of their nests.
To feather an oar (Naut), to turn it when it leaves the water so that the blade will be horizontal and offer the least resistance to air while reaching for another stroke.
To tar and feather a person, to smear him with tar and cover him with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity.
Feathering \Feath"er*ing\, n.
(Arch.) Same as Foliation.
The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t.
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A covering of feathers.
Feathering float (Naut.), the float or paddle of a feathering wheel.
Feathering screw (Naut.), a screw propeller, of which the blades may be turned so as to move edgewise through the water when the vessel is moving under sail alone.
Feathering wheel (Naut.), a paddle wheel whose floats turn automatically so as to dip about perpendicularly into the water and leave in it the same way, avoiding beating on the water in the descent and lifting water in the ascent.
Wiktionary
n. A feathered texture. vb. (present participle of feather English)
WordNet
n. turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls [syn: feather]
Wikipedia
Feathering is a technique used in computer graphics software to smooth or blur the edges of a feature. The term is inherited from a technique of fine retouching using fine feathers.
Feathering may refer to:
- Feathering, a technique used in computer graphics to blur edges.
- Feathering (reentry) (also feathered reentry, or shuttlecock reentry), an atmospheric reentry technique for spacecraft
- Feathering (propeller), changing an aircraft or wind turbine propeller blade by angling the blades parallel to airflow
- Feathering (clutch), alternately engaging and disengaging an automotive clutch
- Tarring and feathering, a type of punishment of medieval and early modern times
- Feathering (horse), long hair on the lower legs of some breeds of horse
Feathering or feather is the long hair on the lower legs and fetlocks of some breeds of horse and pony. On some horses, especially draft breeds, the hair can almost cover the hooves. While nearly all horses will grow longer hair on the lower legs and back of the fetlocks at times, particularly in the winter, "feather" refers to the particularly long, luxuriant growth that is characteristic of certain breeds.
Usage examples of "feathering".
From a distance he had not been able to determine what it was made of, but now he discerned that it was of whole skins of some brightly feathered birds, and that in the morning light it shimmered with rainbows of colors, like the fine feathers of pigeons he had seen in Europe, though the general feathering was much lighter in hue.
This time there would be no force, no fustigation or feathering, but only sweet fucking and maybe a bit of gamahuching, for I had already discovered that sweet Alice had the most effervescent of sensual natures when lips and tongue plied that coral nook between her shapely thighs with the expert diligence of which I was capable.
They had received their fair share of fustigation, feathering, yes, and fucking too, with the little fillip of erotic excitement which all of us procured in having mother and daughter perform the secret and mystic rituals of Lesbos.
The crackling grew more intense, sparking now with small bolts of lightning, feathering out from the keels like jagged spears.
And that mission was the only reason he retained his freedom, instead of languishing in some Federal oubliette, awaiting the trial of the young century, followed, no doubt, by public tarring and feathering.
I stared hungrily down at her panting bubbies and the stickied muff between her long, quivering thighs, signs of the fulfillment which my feathering and gamahuching had brought her.
His head was shaven and always capped by an outrageous wide-brimmed hat feathering the gigantic plume of a diatryma bird.
There was a fiat, especially heavy crash, and a long line of fuming orange fire came pouring down the seething air into the depths, feathering horizontally like the mane of a Lipizzan stallion, directly in front of Helmuth.
I expect that you, like me and everybody else in the borough, will be cashing in your share certificate on Monday and pocketing the moolah, before getting on with the tarring and feathering.
Beside him, the sun-browned fronds of a banana tree were feathering in the wind, making a crispy sound whenever a gust blew them back into the wall.
The feathering it bore would not give it near the accuracy of the arrhendim’s brown-fletched shafts at long range.
There is no doubt that Dudley embraced such doctrines, not only to gain favour with his young master, but also as a means of feathering his nest, for the radicals were demanding the closure of chantries and shrines, and there were rich pickings to be had.
He nodded to Stan, who pushed the feathering button and snapped off the booster pump.
He's accelerating through the Paddock Turn now, sawing the wheel and feathering the throttle to keep the machine turning to the right as fast as possible without spinning from the centrifugal forces of nature that try to pull this living man-machine combination to the left.
The feathering was balloon type, there were three of them, the cock feather marked plainly with some kind of dye, and the fletching feathers had all come from the same side of the bird, after the accepted fashion of good arrow-making.