TUFT

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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.
n.

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.
n.

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.

4.
v.

To separate into tufts.

5.
v.

To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. Thomson.

6.
v.

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

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