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Webster 1913 Edition

Tuft

Tuft

,
Noun.
[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
.
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.

Tuft

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tufted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tufting
.]
1.
To separate into tufts.
2.
To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
Thomson.

Tuft

,
Verb.
I.
To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tuft

TUFT

, n.
1.
A collection of small things in a knot or bunch; as a tuft of flowers; a tuft of feathers; a tuft of grass or hair. A tuft of feathers forms the crest of a bird..
2.
A cluster, a clump; as a tuft of trees; a tuft of olives.
3.
In botany, a head of flowers, each elevated on a partial stalk, and all forming together a dense roundish mass. The word is sometimes applied to other collections, as little bundles of leaves, hairs and the like.

TUFT

,
Verb.
T.
To separate into tufts.
1.
To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.

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