feathering

How To Use feathering In A Sentence

• Perpendicular window, to support which the low circular arch in the centre had been constructed; on either side of this window were now to be seen the mouldings and featherings of the original early decorated lights, on a level with the lateral clerestory range; below these the Norman arcade, based upon a string course of nebule ornaments. Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
• ‘Philadelphia,’from the Amaryllis family, has white with salmon-red feathering, and huge double flowers.
• Consequently, feathering will not be able to produce the asymmetry necessary for the rowing appendage to generate net thrust.
• If that doesn't happen, the old centrist, false-hearted, nest-feathering Democratic Party will sooner or later be as thoroughly despised by decent, thoughtful, intelligent, caring Americans (surely not a permanent minority!) as the Republican Party is already despised. Frank Dwyer: Throw the Bums Out ... Ours, Too
• They have longish bills, and they seem to have pale gape lines, though I can't tell whether that's skin or feathering.
• These two categories of toxins are the cause of a range of ailments - ergot alkaloids may lead to poor feathering and lesions forming on chickens, fescue foot in ruminants and shrunken udders in sows, while endotoxins are responsible for endotoxic shock and death. Laboratorytalk - laboratory industry news
• = Leaves prolonged on the stem beneath the insertion: branchlets springing out beneath the point of furcation, as the feathering along the trunk of elms, etc. Handbook of the Trees of New England
• The tarring and feathering of the sport has been a degrading spectacle these past few weeks. Times, Sunday Times
• At another table, two women were re-feathering roasted peacocks with feathers colored by saffron and yellow turnsole. Soul of the Fire
• Feathering should be trimmed every few months, both to give the dog a smart appearance and to repel the grime that seems to accumulate there.