preen

preen is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.To dress with, or as with, a preen; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers; -- said of birds. Derham.
  2. 2.To trim up, as trees. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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