TUFT
\tˈʌft], \tˈʌft], \t_ˈʌ_f_t]\
Definitions of TUFT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
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To separate into tufts.
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To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
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To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
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To separate into tufts.
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To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
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To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A knot or bunch made of long, slender parts; as, a tuft of grass; a cluster or clump; as, a tuft of plants.
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To divide into, or decorate with, such clusters.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A number of small things in a knot: a cluster: a dense head of flowers.
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To separate into tufts: to adorn with tufts.
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TUFTED, TUFTY.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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