What is to preen; to prepare; to dress. Spenser. His royal bird Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak. Shak called?
prune — To preen; to prepare; to dress. Spenser. His royal bird Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak. Shak. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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