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or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails. Luff tackle, a purchase composed of a double and single block and fall, used for various purposes. Totten. -- Luff upon luff, a luff tackle attached to the fall of another luff tackle. R. H. Dana, Jr.

A small genus of tropical cucurbitaceous plants having white flowers, the staminate borne in racemes, and large fruits with a dry fibrous pericarp. The fruit of several species and the species themselves, esp. L. Ægyptiaca, are called dishcloth gourds.

See Louver.

Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship. "Bluff visages." Irving.

Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

One who bluffs.

The quality or state of being bluff.

Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.

Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy. "The carpets were fluffy." Thackeray. The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. Dickens. -- Fluff"i*ness, n.

To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs. [Scot.]

of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

A game at cards similar to bluff. Chesterfield.

Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; hluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style.

A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.

3. -- To come to. (a) To consent or yield. Swift. (b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to brin the ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor. (c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon. (d) To arrive at; to reach. (e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum. (f) To fall to; to be received by,…

Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.

Downy; fluffy. [R.]

A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast.