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Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
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n.
Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.
a.
Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
a.
Without plumes.
a.
Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.
n.
A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
n.
Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.
n.
A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.
v. i.
To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.
v. t.
To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate.
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.
n.
Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidae. They generally grow in plumelike forms.
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A small plume.
v. t.
To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
n.
Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
v. t.
To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
v. t.
To adorn with feathers or plumes.
v. t.
To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
a.
Destitute of bards, or of reversed points, hairs, or plumes; as, an unbarded feather.
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