Definition of Depluming

1. Verb. (present participle of deplume) ¹

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Definition of Depluming

1. deplume [v] - See also: deplume

Lexicographical Neighbors of Depluming

deploy
deployability
deployable
deployed
deployer
deployers
deploying
deployment
deployments
deploys
deplumate
deplumation
deplume
deplumed
deplumes
depluming (current term)
depocenter
depocenters
depocentre
depocentres
depointing
depolarisation
depolarisations
depolarise
depolarised
depolariser
depolarisers
depolarises
depolarising
depolarising block

Literary usage of Depluming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the constitution of the Church and State, according to the idea of each by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1830)
"... on the depluming of THE POPE, every bird had his own feather; in the partage whereof, what he had gotten by Sacrilege, was restored to Christ; ..."

2. Poultry Diseases and Their Treatment by Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Maynie Rose Curtis, Frank Macy Surface (1911)
"... should be taken not to wet the feathers. The advantage of these treatments is their easy and rapid application to a number of birds. depluming Scabies. ..."

3. The Parasitic Diseases of Poultry by Frederick Vincent Theobald (1896)
"If taken in time recovery is very rapid, but if allowed to work well into the leg this Scabies is not readily remedied. depluming SCABIES (FEATHER-EATING). ..."

4. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"The process should be repeated in not over a week. depluming Mite. ... known as the depluming mite, is closely related to the " scaly leg mite," but attacks ..."

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