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tuft |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tuft \Tuft\, n. [Prov. E. tuff, F. touffe; of German origin; cf G. zopf a weft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree. See {Top} summit.] 1. A collection of small flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as a tuft of flowers or feathers. 2. A cluster; a clump; as a tuft of plants. Under a tuft of shade. --Milton. Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade. --Keble. 3. A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them [Cant, Eng.] Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. --T. Hughes. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tuft \Tuft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tufted}; p. pr & vb n. {Tufting}.] 1. To separate into tufts. 2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. --Thomson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tuft \Tuft\, v. i. To grow in or form a tuft or tufts. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tuft n 1: a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass [syn: {tussock}] 2: a bunch of feathers or hair
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