tuft : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tuft	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for tuft
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tuft n a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass [syn: tuft, tussock] a bunch of feathers or hair
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tuft \Tuft\, n. [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tuft \Tuft\, v. i. To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.