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5. To tread, as a cock.
Dryden.

To feather one's nest, to provide for one's
self especially from property belonging to another, confided to one's
care; -- an expression taken from the practice of birds which collect
feathers for the lining of their nests. -- To feather an
oar (Naut), to turn it when it leaves the water
so that the blade will be horizontal and offer the least resistance
to air while reaching for another stroke. -- To tar and
feather a person, to smear him with tar and cover him
with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity.

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. [Colloq.]

3. To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of
oars.

The feathering oar returns the
gleam.


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