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The technical name of lead. See Lead.

A cross between the plum and apricot.

downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather. Wings . . . of many a colored plume. Milton.

Without plumes.

A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson.

Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. [R.] Southey.

An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.

Feathered; having feathers. Bailey

Having the of a plume or feather. [R.]

A plumiped bird.

d attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water. I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded. Shak.

The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.

Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous. [Colloq.] "For the sake of getting something plummy." G. Eliot.

Having feathers or plumes.

Same as Jamesonite.

The quality or state of being plumose.

Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. Shak. The god of wine did his plump clusters bring. T. Carew.

One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.

Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve. [Colloq.]

The quality or state of being plump.