plumare

plumare [CL] 1 to provide (arrow) with feathers, to fletch, to feather. 1456 pro cerico ad ~andum sagittas, de mandato domini regis ExchScot 128. 2 (assoc w. deplumare) to deprive of feathers, to pluck. b (falc., w. hawk as subj.) to plume. pinnirapus ‥ i. ille qui ~at aves Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 428.  b cum autem primum volaverit, si volucrem ceperit, ad libitum suum eum ~are dimitte Adel. CA 9 (cf. ib. 2: ad libitum deplumet et comedat). 3 to decorate with a feathered pattern or sim. (also in fig. context). aeternae beatitudinis coronam ‥ inextricabili plecta plumemus [gl.: ornemus, scribamus, pingamus] Aldh. VirgP 39 (40) p. 291; integritas nitidam necnon et passio rubram / plumabant pariter macta virtute coronam Id. VirgV 2445; ~are, pingere, ornare; hinc et opus plumarium, i. pictura variatum, dicitur Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 483. 4 (falc., p. ppl. as sb. f.) ‘casting’, meal of feathers. ~atas singulis ebdemodis duas da Adel. CA 4; da ei ~atam et sanabitur Ib. 5. 5 (in gl.). 9‥ ~emus, windan WW; 10‥ ~emus, scecen we WW.