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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass;
[syn: tuft, tussock]

2. a bunch of feathers or hair;


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. [1913 Webster] 2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tuft \Tuft\, v. i. To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts. [1913 Webster]
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. [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]
WordNet (r) 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

53 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuft": 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