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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.

Decked with feathers.

A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage. On the depluming of the pope every bird had his own feather. Fuller.

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade. Displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed. Burke.

Plumed. [R.]

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

Not plumed; without plumes or feathers; featherless. [R.] Drayton.

A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.

To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate.

A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc. Prescott.

inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

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.

An overweening idea of one's self; vanity. Plumed with conceit he calls aloud. Cotton.