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Webster 1913 Edition


Deplumation

Depˊlu-ma′tion

,
Noun.
[See
Deplumate
.]
1.
The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
Bp. Stillingfleet
2.
(Med.)
A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.
Thomas.

Webster 1828 Edition


Deplumation

DEPLUMATION

,
Noun.
1.
The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
2.
A tumor of the eye-lids with loss of hair.

Definition 2024


deplumation

deplumation

English

Noun

deplumation (uncountable)

  1. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers.
    • Bishop Stillingfleet
      [] through the violence of her moulting, or deplumation, she comes into this earthly body deprived of that blessed life which she before enjoyed.
  2. (medicine) A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes.
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