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Pronunciation : Tuft
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Prov. E. tuff, F. touffe; of German origin; cf. G. zopf a weft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree. See Top summit.]
Definition : 1. A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.

2. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants. Under a tuft of shade. Milton. Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade. Keble.

3. A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them. [Cant, Eng.] Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. T. Hughes.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Tuft
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To separate into tufts.

2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. Thomson.

t. [imp. & p. p. Tufted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tufting.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Tuft
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913