DEPLUME

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.

2.
v.

To lay bare; to expose. The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey.