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preened


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Preen  \Preen\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Preened};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Preening}.]  [See  {Preen},  n.;  or  cf  {Prune}.] 
  1.  To  dress  with  or  as  with  a  preen;  to  trim  or  dress  with 
  the  beak,  as  the  feathers;  --  said  of  birds.  --Derham. 
 
  2.  To  trim  up  as  trees.  [Prov.  Eng.]  --Halliwell. 




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