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  1. 1. n. 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. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. 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. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To separate into tufts. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. i. To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. a bunch of feathers or hair Source: wordnet
  9. 9. 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. 1. To separate into tufts. 2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. Thomson. To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts. Source: webster
  10. 10. n:100 n. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass n. a bunch of feathers or hair Source: ecdict

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