Word Meanings - PLUMELET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson.
Related words: (words related to PLUMELET)
- SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - LARCH
A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles . Note: The European larch is Larix Europæa. The American or black larch is L. Americana, the hackmatack or tamarack. The trees are generally of a drooping, graceful appearance. - 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. - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - PLUMELET
A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson. - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. - SMALLNESS
The quality or state of being small. - SMALLS
See 3 - SMALLSWORD
A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. - LARCHEN
Of or pertaining to the larch. Keats. - PLUMELESS
Without plumes. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - SEMIPLUME
A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather. - PHYLARCHY
The office of a phylarch; government of a class or tribe. - HYLARCHICAL
Presiding over matter. Hallywell. - CORNIPLUME
A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds. - ABYSMALLY
To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot. - PHYLARCH
The chief of a phyle, or tribe. (more info) Antiq.) - IMPLUMED
Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless. Drayton. - POLARCHY
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