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To Feather

  1. To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
  2. To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
  3. To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
  4. (transitive, intransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
  5. (aeronautics) To 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.
  6. (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
  7. (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
  8. (intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
  9. (transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
  10. (transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
  11. (transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
  12. (snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
  13. (snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
  14. (transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
  15. (transitive) To move softly, like a feather.