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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
tuft
    n 1: a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass [syn: tuft,
         tussock]
    2: a bunch of feathers or hair

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tuft \Tuft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tufted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Tufting.]
   1. To separate into tufts.
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   2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. --Thomson.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tuft \Tuft\, v. i.
   To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tuft \Tuft\, n. [Prov. E. tuff, F. touffe; of German origin; cf.
   G. zopf a weft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree. See Top
   summit.]
   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.
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   2. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
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            Under a tuft of shade.                --Milton.
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            Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade.
                                                  --Keble.
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   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.]
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            Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.
                                                  --T. Hughes.
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Thesaurus Results for Tuft:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Vandyke, bang, bangs, batch, beard, beaver, bristles, bunch, clump, cluster, copse, crest, crop, down, feather, fetlock, fleck, flock, forelock, fringe, goatee, group, grouping, groupment, grove, growth, hackle, hassock, imperial, knot, lot, mess, panache, peach fuzz, pinion, plantation, planting, plume, plumule, quiff, quill, scapular, shock, side whiskers, slew, stand, stook, stubble, thicket, topknot, tussock, whiskers, wisp
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