Definition of "befeather"

befeather

verb
third-person singular simple present befeathers, present participle befeathering, simple past and past participle befeathered
1. (transitive) To deck or cover with feathers.
  Quotations
  The men were not ill made, but they disfigured themselves with grease and coarse paint; they were of a dark copper-colour, with lank black hair, which they tied in a knot behind; but they so bepowdered, or rather befeathered it with down, that the colour was hardly discernible […]
  1785, John Rickman, Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean: on Discovery‎, London: E. Newbery, Part 2, pp. 223-224
  In fact, Grace found it very difficult to find a milliner who, if left to her own devices, would not befeather and beflower her past all self-recognition, giving to her that generally betousled and fly-away air which comes straight from the demi-monde of Paris.
  1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 25, in Pink and White Tyranny‎, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 291
  They were making a human fetish doll out of clay, painting and befeathering it, offering yuca to it.
  2001, Leonard Clark, The Rivers Ran East