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Pluming
(gcide) | Plume \Plume\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plumed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pluming.] [Cf. F. plumer to pluck, to strip, L. plumare to
cover with feathers.]
1. To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or
prink.
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Pluming her wings among the breezy bowers. --W.
Irving.
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2. To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage;
also, to peel. [Obs.] --Bacon. Dryden.
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3. To adorn with feathers or plumes. "Farewell the plumed
troop." --Shak.
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4. To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he
plumes himself on his skill. --South.
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Plumed adder (Zool.), an African viper (Vipera cornuta,
syn. Clotho cornuta), having a plumelike structure over
each eye. It is venomous, and is related to the African
puff adder. Called also horned viper and hornsman.
Plumed partridge (Zool.), the California mountain quail
(Oreortyx pictus). See Mountain quail, under
Mountain.
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Depluming
(gcide) | Deplume \De*plume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deplumed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Depluming.] [LL. deplumare; L. de- + plumare to
cover with feathers, pluma feather: cf. deplumis featherless,
and F. d['e]plumer.]
1. To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of
plumage.
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On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own
feather. --Fuller.
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2. To lay bare; to expose.
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The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of
the age. --De Quincey.
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Displuming
(gcide) | Displume \Dis*plume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Displumed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Displuming.] [Pref. dis- + plume: cf. OF. desplumer,
F. d['e]plumer.]
To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of
decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.
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Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. --Burke.
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