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Preening definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PREE'NING, ppr. Cleaning and composing the feathers, as fowls.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.