'Tuft' definitions:
Definition of 'tuft'
(from WordNet)
noun
A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass [syn: tuft, tussock]
noun
A bunch of feathers or hair
Definition of 'Tuft'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants. [1913 Webster]
- Under a tuft of shade. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. --T. Hughes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tuft'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Tuft'
From: GCIDE
- Tuft \Tuft\, v. i. To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tuft'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Vandyke,
- whiskers,
- wisp