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- Plume - v. - A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
- Plume - v. - An ornamental tuft of feathers.
- Plume - v. - A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.
- Plume - v. - A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
- Plume - v. - A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
- Plume - v. t. - To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
- Plume - v. t. - To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
- Plume - v. t. - To adorn with feathers or plumes.
- Plume - v. t. - To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
- Plumed - imp. & p. p. - of Plume
- Plumeless - a. - Without plumes.
- Plumelet - n. - A small plume.
- Plumery - n. - Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.
- Panache - n. - A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
- Plumassary - n. - A plume or collection of ornamental feathers.
- Hypoptilum - n. - An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.
- Egret - n. - A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.
- Chasseur - n. - An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.
- Gorgonia - n. - A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.
- Plumiliform - a. - Having the of a plume or feather.
- Crest - n. - The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet.
- Microlepidoptera - n. pl. - A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.
- Aigrette - n. - A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc.
- Pterophore - n. - Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.
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