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Tuft [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A collection of small things in a knot or bunch; as a tuft of flowers; a tuft of feathers; a tuft of grass or hair. A tuft of feathers forms the crest of a bird..

2. A cluster, a clump; as a tuft of trees; a tuft of olives.

3. In botany, a head of flowers, each elevated on a partial stalk, and all forming together a dense roundish mass. The word is sometimes applied to other collections, as little bundles of leaves, hairs and the like.

Tuft [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To separate into tufts.

2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft

Tuft [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

Tuft [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.

Tuft [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To separate into tufts.

2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.

Tufted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

or adjective Adorned with a tuft, as the tufted duck; growing in a tuft or clusters, as a tufted grove.

Tufted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Adorned with a tuft; as, the tufted duck.

2. Growing in tufts or clusters; tufty.

Tufted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tufthunter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3.

Tufthunting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.

Tufting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tufty [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Abounding with tufts; growing in clusters; bushy.

Tufty [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Abounding with tufts.

2. Growing in tufts or clusters.