Definitions
1.verbTo cover or furnish with feathers.
2.verbTo arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers."The stylist feathered my hair."
3.verbTo rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
4.verbTo streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight."After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine’s propeller."
5.verbTo finely shave or bevel an edge.
6.verbTo intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
7.verbTo adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
8.verbTo render light as a feather; to give wings to.
9.verbTo enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
10.verbTo tread, as a cock.
11.verbTo accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim
12.adjectiveCovered with feathers.
13.adjectiveHaving the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.
14.adjectiveHaving a finely bevelled edge.
15.adjectiveBadly beaten.
16.adjective(in combination) Having a specific type or number of feathers."a blue-feathered bird"
17.adjectiveSwift, like the flight of a feathered creature.