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r time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. Nash. Plumes that micked the may. Tennyson.

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

ke stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate leaves. -- Mountain quail (Zoöl.), the plumed partridge (Oreortyx pictus) of California. It has two long, slender, plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black and white; the neck and breast are dar…

as a sign; a doorplate. -- Pen name, a name assumed by an author; a pseudonym or nom de plume. Bayard Taylor. -- Proper name (Gram.), a name applied to a particular person, place, or thing. -- To call names, to apply opprobrious epithets to; to call by reproachful appellations. -- To take a name in vain, to use a…

To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.

e (, literally, war name; hence, a fictitious name, or one assumed for a time. -- Nom de plume (, literally, pen name; hence, a name assumed by an author as his or her signature.

A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers. A panache of variegated plumes. Prescott.

A bunch of feathers; a plume. [Obs.] Holland.

Winged; plume-shaped.

Winged; having plumes. [Obs.]

Having the form of a feather or plume.

one of a series of small, slender organs, or parts, when arranged in rows so as to have a plumelike appearance; as, a pinnule of a gorgonia; the pinnules of a crinoid.

A plume or collection of ornamental feathers.

One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or feathers.

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

Having feathers or plumes.

elonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidæ. They generally grow in plumelike forms.

Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery. "His plumy crest." Addison. "The plumy trees." J. S. Blackie.

To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively. Bp. Hall. Pluming and priding himself in all his services. South.

Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.