Category:Tuft

Tuft, n. Etym: [prov. E. tuff, f. touffe; of german origin; cf. G. Zopf a weft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree. See top summit.]

1. 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.

2. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants. Under a tuft of shade. Milton. Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade. Keble.

3. 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.] Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. T. Hughes.

Tuft Tuft, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tufted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tufting.]

1. To separate into tufts.

2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. Thomson.

Tuft Tuft, v. i.

Defn: to grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.