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n. A short cluster of elongated strands, as of yarn, hair, or grass, attached at the base or growing close together.

n. A dense clump, especially of trees or bushes.

v. To furnish or ornament with tufts or a tuft.

v. To pass threads through the layers of (a quilt, mattress, or upholstery), securing the thread ends with a knot or button.

verb-intransitive. To separate or form into tufts.

verb-intransitive. To grow in a tuft.

n. A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.

n. A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.

n. A small clump of trees or bushes.

n. A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.

n. A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

v. To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.

v. To form into tufts.

v. To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts.

v. To be formed into tufts.

n. A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster.

n. A cluster; a clump.

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. To separate into tufts.

v. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.

verb-intransitive. To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.

n. A green knoll. See toft.

n. A grove; a plantation; a clump.

To beat up (a thicket or covert) in stag-hunting.

n. A bunch of soft and flexible things fixed at the base with the upper part loose, especially when the whole is small: as, a tuft of feathers.

n. A turban.

n. A crest.

n. An imperial.

n. In anat, a rete; a glomerulus. See cut under Malpighian.

n. In botany, a fascicle of flowers on their several partial peduncles; a cluster of radical leaves; a clump or tussock of stems from a common root, as in many grasses and sedges; hence, any analogous bundle.

n. An undergraduate who bears a title: so called from the tuft worn on his cap to indicate his rank.

To separate or combine into tufts.

To affix a tuft to: cover or stud with tufts, or as if with tufts.

In upholstery, to draw together (a cushion or an upholstered covering) by passing a thread through it at regular intervals, the depressions thus produced being usually covered with tufts or buttons.

To grow in tufts; form a tuft or tufts.

n. a bunch of feathers or hair

n. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

"When boys are first shaved generally in the second or third year, a tuft is left on the crown and another over the forehead; but this is not the fashion amongst adults."

tufted    tufting    tufts   

crest   

spanish-tuft    branchial    london-tuft    ungual tuft   

tufted    tufting   

cluster    clump   

bluffed    cuffed    fluffed    huffed    luffed    luft    puffed    rebuffed    roughed    scuffed   

clump    wisp    fringe    mustache    patch    stalk    plume    wreath    foliage    strand