Tuft
[tʌft]
Definition
(noun.) a bunch of feathers or hair.
(noun.) a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To separate into tufts.
(v. t.) To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
(v. i.) To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
Editor: Ozzie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Knot, bunch.[2]. Cluster, group.[3]. Crest, plume, clump.[4]. (Bot.) Capitulum.
Edited by Elvis
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bunch, cluster, knot, plume
Checker: Spenser
Definition
n. a green knoll: a grove clump.
n. a number of small things in a knot: a cluster: a dense head of flowers: (university slang) a titled undergraduate from the tuft or tassel in the cap: an imperial.—v.t. to separate into tufts: to adorn with tufts.—adjs. Tuft′ed Tuft′y.—ns. Tuft′-hunt′er one over-eager to form acquaintance with persons of rank or consequence: a mean hanger-on of the great; Tuft′-hunt′ing the practice of a tuft-hunter.
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Examples
- In our poultry, a large tuft of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb, and a large beard by diminished wattles. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Some were close-shaven, all over, except that a tuft like a paint-brush was left on the end of the tail. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He had already withdrawn his eye from the Peri, and was looking at a humble tuft of daisies which grew by the wicket. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Bradley turned away his haggard face for a few moments, and then said, tearing up a tuft of grass: 'Damn him! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Apply with a tuft of cotton, and finish by rubbing down hard with Canton flannel or a woolen rag. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- When used as linings of cloaks the black tuft from the tail is sewed to the skin at irregular distances. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In this way it could be made to smoke, and finally set fire to a tuft of dried moss, from which he might get a flame for cooking. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- While I was copying the plain inscription for him at his request, I saw him stoop, and gather a tuft of grass from the grave and a little earth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A comb-shaped slitted plate in the machine has then each slit filled with bristles, sufficient in number to form a single tuft. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I found the island to be all rocky, only a little intermingled with tufts of grass, and sweet-smelling herbs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- If we lay such a magnet on a pile of iron filings, it will be found on lifting the magnet that the filings cling to the ends in tufts, but leave it almost bare in the center (Fig. 222). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Red suns and tufts of fire one by one began to arise, flecking the whole country round. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In this, brush blocks of varying sizes, but of the same pattern, are bored by the same machine which receives the bristles, and the tufts are inserted as fast as the holes are bored. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- More than once, as tufts of grass came out in my hand or my foot slipped in the wet notches of the rock, I thought that I was gone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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