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Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.

A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

Without bread; destitude of food. Plump peers and breadless bards alike are dull. P. Whitehead.

An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.

y bear. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. Farm. Dict.

A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum.

y stone (Min.), a yellow species of carnelian, named from its resemblance in color to the plumage of the canary bird. -- Canary wood, the beautiful wood of the trees Persea Indica and P. Canariensis, natives of Madeira and the Canary Islands. -- Canary vine. See Canary bird flower, under Canary bird.…

n; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.

without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet. His casque overshadowed with brilliant plumes. Prescott.

A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. Gauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram und…

to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. Darwin. Caudal fin (Zoöl.), the terminal fin (or "tail") of a fish.

An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword. The great chasseur who had announced her arrival. W. Irving.

A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone; (a) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duk…

Stout or plump; large. [Obs.] Fenton.

Having a plump, short face.

Like a chub; plump, short, and thick. "Chubby faces." I. Taylor.

etermining the dip of beds or strata, pr the slope of an embankment or cutting; a kind of plumb level. Dana.

) , glands situated at the base of the tail of birds. They secrete the oil with which the plumage is dressed.

A gull in the plumage of its first year.