feathering

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of feather

noun

1. Plumage.
2. A feathered texture.
   The whole flower is very small; the tube is faintly marked with lilac lines; the petals are concave, the three outer white, marked with three lines, the middle one narrow, without featherings, the outer ones broader, and neatly feathered […] 1834, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants
3. The fitting of feathers to arrows.
4. (architecture) An arrangement of small arcs or foils separated by projecting cusps, frequently forming the feather-like ornament on the inner mouldings of arches.
5. Visible offshoots of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.