Word Meanings - PLUME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 which one prides himself; a prize or reward. "Ambitious to win from me some plume." Milton. (more info) 1. A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather. Wings . . . of many a colored plume. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLUME)

• Tuft
• Bunch
• cluster
• knot
• plume

Related words: (words related to PLUME)

• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• BUNCHY
  Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page. (more info) 1. Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer. 2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's
• BUNCHBERRY
  The dwarf cornel , which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
• BUNCH
  A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. Page. (more info) 1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels. Isa. xxx. 6. 2. A collection, cluster,
• 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
• PLUMERY
  Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. Southey.
• PLUMELET
  A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson.
• BUNCH-BACKED
  Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." Shak.
• CLUSTER
  1. A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser. 2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous;
• BUNCHINESS
  The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.
• BUNCH GRASS
  A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.
• PLUMELESS
  Without plumes.
• CLUSTERINGLY
  In clusters.
• SEMIPLUME
  A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
• CORNIPLUME
  A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.
• IMPLUMED
  Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless. Drayton.
• DISPLUME
  To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.
• EMPLUMED
  Plumed.
• DEPLUME
  1. To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller. 2. To lay bare; to expose. The exposure and depluming of the leading humbugs of the age. De Quincey.
• UNPLUME
  To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate.
• FILOPLUME
  A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.