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A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. Shipley.

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

ical channel of water for hydraulic or placer mining; also, a chute for conveying logs or lumber down a declivity.

Pertaining to rivers; abounding in streama.

A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke.

A frænum.

The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.

The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.

To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] Hawes.

Having glumes; consisting of glumes.

Characterized by a glume, or having the nature of a glume.

The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt. Gray.

One of the pelets or inner chaffy scales of the flowers or spikelets of grasses.

In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.

dark; gloomy; dismal. [Obs.]

Moodiness; sullenness.

To manifest sullenness; to sulk. [Colloq.]

Glum; sullen; sulky. [Colloq.] "He was glumpy enough." T. Hook.

The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.