tuft

Noun
Synonyms: tussock

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grassSynonyms: tussock
  2. a bunch of feathers or hair
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Tuft \Tuft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tufted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tufting.]

1.To separate into tufts. [1913 Webster]

2.To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]

Tuft \Tuft\, v. i. To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

2.A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants. [1913 Webster]

Under a tuft of shade.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade.— Keble.[1913 Webster]

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.] [1913 Webster]

Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.— T. Hughes.[1913 Webster]
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