GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   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.]
   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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   Under a tuft of shade.
   Milton.
   
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   Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade.
   Keble.
   
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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. [Cant, Eng.]
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   Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.
   T. Hughes.
   
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   Tuft, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tufted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tufting.]
   To separate into tufts.
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   To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
   Thomson.
   
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   Tuft, v. i. To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
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