Word Meanings - IMPLUMED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless. Drayton.

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• PLUMPNESS
  The quality or state of being plump.
• PLUMA
  A feather.
• PLUMB
  A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below. Plumb bob. See Bob, 4. -- Plumb joint, in sheet-metal work, a lap joint,
• PLUMIPED
  Having feet covered with feathers. -- n.
• PLUMAGE
  The entire clothing of a bird. Note: It consist of the contour feathers, or the ordinary feathers covering the head, neck, and body; the tail feathers, with their upper and lower coverts; the wing feathers, including primaries, secondaries, and
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• PLUMMY
  Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous. "For the sake of getting something plummy." G. Eliot.
• PLUMMING
  The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.
• PLUMULE
  The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle. Gray. A down feather. The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather. One of the featherlike scales
• PLUMY
  Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery. "His plumy crest." Addison. "The plumy trees." J. S. Blackie.
• PLUMBAGE
  Leadwork
• PLUM
  The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree. The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing
• PLUMBER
  One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.
• PLUMP
  Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. Shak. The god of wine did his plump clusters bring. T. Carew. (more info) clumsy; akin to D. plomp, G., Dan., & Sw. plump; probably of
• PLUMBIFEROUS
  Producing or containing lead. Kirwan.
• PLUMICORN
  An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.
• PLUMBAGINEOUS
  Pertaining to natural order of gamopetalous herbs, of which plumbago is the type. The order includes also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera.
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• PLUME
  An ornamental tuft of feathers. 3. A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers. His high plume, that nodded o'er his head. Dryden. 4. A token of honor or prowess; that on
• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• PEPLUM
  A peplos. Hence: An overskirt hanging like an ancient peplos; also, a short fitted skirt attached to a waist or coat.
• SEMIPLUME
  A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
• NATAL PLUM
  The drupaceous fruit of two South African shrubs of the genus Arduina .
• REPLUM
  The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off. Gray.
• DEPLUMATION
  A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas. (more info) 1. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet