Feath″er, v. i. 1. To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; — often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
2. To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or “feathers;” as, the cream feathers.
3. To turn to a horizontal plane; — said of oars.
The feathering oar returns the gleam. Tickell.
Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately. Macmillan's Mag.
4. To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.
A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground. Warren.
The ripple feathering from her bows. Tennyson.